Fend off attacks Sixty-two percent of the time that auditor Gordon Smith breaks in to a corporate network with an Oracle Corp. database, his team easily gains full control of that database. If we're going to get in, most of the time we get in in the first half-hour. Despite all the publicity surrounding military security, Smith said he believes other parts of the national infrastructure, such as electric power and natural gas companies, are at even greater risk. If I was Saddam Hussein, I wouldn't take on the military. At one audit, his team found 309 users who hadn't set passwords.
Vendors can also cause security problems for their customers.
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