Protecting employees at their home office can be equally important. From my IT perspective, supporting home office computing is something I have attempted to avoid like the plague. The thought of delving into the morass of issues involved in the setup and support of a home computer with games, educational software, various home peripherals like digital cameras and modems simply sends shivers up my spine. However, with the profusion of always-on Internet connectivity, IT interest in secure home computing is about to move into the fast lane. Home systems that enjoyed Internet access typically used a dial-up account with a randomly assigned IP address that made it difficult for someone interested in company information from actually attempting to attack the remote employee s computer.
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Experts predict that the demand for domain names will grow from 25 million to 500 million registered names in just a few years. The age of always-on access via DSL and Cable adapters with static IP addresses is making it not only possible, but likely that someone will attempt to make an attack on that now unprotected computer. It is likely in these four cases that the illicit attempts to attack my computer were not malicious, but were more likely merely curious. Likewise, they were probably not interested in any company secrets I might have. However, the possibility of someone accessing personal and corporate documents certainly existed.