For now, Bourgeois added, companies should ramp up security around workplaces, particularly where they are using private virtual networks branched into public telecoms networks. Companies have established security systems along the lines of 'firewalls' for their central servers. One can no longer access the networks by the main entrance. Employees' home computers which are linked to their company can also be used by hackers to send a virus via the network. But in fact, companies only own up to having problems when there is no alternative, Bourgeois said.
Businesses are scared of losing market share to their competitors by owning up to security breaches.
Nevertheless, that kind of attack is educating the market, Bourgeois concluded. People are realising that they cannot develop an e-business without security. ZD Inc. ZDNet Logo is a service mark of ZD Inc.