The Internet is like a city right now - where nobody locks their doors, nobody locks their windows. There is no policing.

Email provides cybercrooks, implementing denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, with a way of shutting down a company's mode of communication. Malicious viruses, worms or trojans can - not only infect a company's network but also its associates or partner's systems more quickly than it takes a person to logon. Computer intrusions or break-ins managed by the high-tech thief can yield client credit card numbers or an enterprise's valuable computer codes.

In their rush to be viable and competitive players in the business world today, organizations often fail to stop and consider the security risks. Many of the security policies they have in place apply to theft of devices like typewriters, neither computers nor the intangible, all-important intellectual property they store.

Clearly, the Internet has just opened multiple new frontiers that criminals can use to commit their acts. (Just as the corporate workers and personal home-users have embraced technology is ever-advancing and far-reaching capabilities) - delete this and replace with - As corporate workers and home-users embrace the ever-advancing technologies and the far-reaching capabilities, the outlaws follow suit.

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