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It never rains but it pours. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problem threatens to earn them- especially in America-the sort of nasty headlines that inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: data insecurity. Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is now high on the boss's agenda in businesses of every variety.
Several massive leakages of customer and employee data this year- from organizations as diverse as Time Warner, the American defense contractor Science Applications International Corp and even the University of California. Berkeley-have left managers hurriedly peering into their intricate 11 systems and business processes in search of potential vulnerabilities.
“Data is becoming an asset which needs no be guarded as much as any other asset.” says I am Mendelson of Stanford University's business school “The ability guard customer data is the key to market value, which the board is responsible for on behalf of shareholders” Indeed, just as there is the concept of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). perhaps it is time for GASP. Generally Accepted Security Practices, suggested Eli Noam of New York's Columbia Business School. “Setting the proper investment level for security, redundancy, and recovery is a management issue, not a technical one.” he says.
The mystery is that this should come as a surprise to any boss. Surely it should be obvious to the dimmest exccutive that trust, that most valuable of economic assets, is easily destroyed and hugely expensive to restore-and that few things are more likely to destroy trust than a company letting sensitive personal data get into the wrong hands.
The current state of affairs may have been encouraged-though not justified-by the lack of legal penalty (in America, but not Europe) for data leakage. Until California recently passed a law. American firms did not have to tell anyone, even the victim, when data went astray, I hat may change fast lots of proposed data-security legislation now doing the rounds in Washington. D.C. Meanwhile. the theft of information about some 40 million credit-card accounts in America, disclosed on June 17th. overshadowed a hugely important decision a day earlier by America's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that puts corporate America on notice that regulators will act if firms fail to provide adequate data security.
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36. The statement: “It never rains but it pours” is used to introduce
[A] the fierce business competition.
[B] the feeble boss-board relations
[C] the threat from news reports.
[D] the severity of data leakage.
第1题
Which one of the following statements doesn’t reflect the theme of the text?
A.Without some expression of risk, people may never know their limits.
B.It is by taking risks that one may achieve greatness.
C.It is by doing sport s that one may achieve greatness.
D.Without some expression of risk, people may never know who they are as individuals.
第2题
wht cn we infor from the lst sentence of the text hpinesscomes from pecewht cn we infor from the lst sentence of the text hpiness comes from peceful life in the country B.Helth is more importnt thn money C.the hrmoney betwwenn mnnd nture is importnt D.good old dy will never be forgotten
A.hapiness comes from peaceful life in the country
B.Health is more important than money
C.the harmoney betwwenn man and nature is important
D.good old day will never be forgotten
第3题
A.Expert scientist in the research area
B.General science reader
C.General public
D.Children
第4题
A.Expert scientist in the research area
B.General science reader
C.General public
D.Children
第5题
A.For many years, all books were written by hanD
B.Because it took so long to write one book, there were only a few of them.
C.Most people could never own a book.
D.Then sometime between 1450 and 1460, Johannes Gutenberg got the idea of carving separate letters and moving them to make new words.
E.Gutenberg died at the age of 68.
F.This was the invention of moveable typ
E.G. From then on, the numbers of books printed grew quickly.
第6题
[A] New plants and animals then move into the area and begin to grow.
[B] Just 2 percent of the sunlight goes through the many layers of leaves and branches above, so understory plant species have developed special traits to cope with low light levels.
[C] On a smaller scale, large mammals, such as elephants, regularly destroy rain forest vegetation in the Congo River Basin in Africa.
[D] An understory of shorter trees and a lacework of woody vines, or lianas, produce a forest of such complex internal architecture that many animals, including some sizable ones, rarely or never descend to the ground.
[E] Less than one percent of the trees in the forest reside in the canopy and emergent layers.
[F] Because more light penetrates the canopy, however, the vegetation of the understory and forest floor is better developed than in the tropics.
[G] The rich, green canopy is teeming with life, and forest researchers have developed ingenious methods for accessing this mysterious ecosystem.
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