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Every company wants to keep tabs on their spending and keep their accounts in check, in order to keep their profits healthy. But there are some areas where is doesn’t pay to skimp on what you need.

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One of these areas is internet security. Hackers can strike at the very heart of your business if you let them, and you can be assured that if they do you will stand to lose far more business (and money) than you would by investing in the services of a company that can stay on top of your security issues for you.

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Perhaps the question should really be, how long could they bring down your business for?

It’s an alarming thought, but in truth a single hacker with the right knowledge could seriously damage your business to the point that you wouldn’t be able to function in any real way for several days, perhaps even longer.

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It’s clear that you have a responsibility to make sure your business is as safe as it possibly can be. In this sense the best stance to take is to assume that yes, a hacker could indeed bring down your whole business. Are you prepared to let that happen?

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An Ethical Hacker is an expert hired by a company to attempt to attack their network and computer system the same way a hacker would. Ethical Hackers use the same techniques and tactics as those used by illegal hackers to breach corporate security systems. The end result is the company’s ability to prevent an intrusion before it ever occurs.

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If life in the data center was a musical, the first two songs security and IT folks would break out in song and dance to would be “Let’s Get Physical” and “We’re All in this Together.”

If the show was based on a recent story in The Register, it would be a somber production. The piece details the repeated break-ins to C I Host, a co-location facility in Chicago. The scary part - aside from the fact that the thieves appear to have been a pretty violent bunch who struck and repeatedly tazered the night manager - is that this was the fourth time in two years that facility was broken into and the company seems to have not been upfront with its customers. In a broader sense, the benefit IT managers and their bosses can gain from other companies’ misfortunes is that physical security efforts must be redoubled.

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