In January 2001, Gregor Freund joined Planet IT for this informative Roundtable to explain why anti-virus and firewalls won't be enough to secure modern enterprise networks. No matter how security minded you are, no matter how many updates and patches you apply, there's always a chance that someone will crack one of your systems. There is a battle being waged. It pits our operating systems and applications against the forces of chaos. The leading contender for the communications protocol that facilitates the world's business transactions is designed to transmit data over HTTP, in the clear.
Sweeping generalizations are often false.