Companies need to wake up.
Electronic commerce is no different than any other type of commerce.
We do not tolerate willful disruptions of business in the physical world and we will not tolerate them in the cyber world either. With so much at stake, it's time for law and order on the electronic frontier. The February outages were not viewed as just one more in a series of hacker episodes. Another 65 percent indicated their intention as the result of the attacks to be more cautious when doing business online. At the same time, however, over 90 percent of respondents appear to want to see the criminal prosecution of the denial of service attackers.