July 25, 2005, 1:24 PM — IT security, like housework, is one of those ever-recurring things. Just when you think you have everything in top form and ship-shape, somebody else comes along and makes a mess. Unlike housework, however, securing an IT infrastructure pits the skills of IT departments against an increasingly sophisticated brand of criminal, working as hard and fast on threats as IT does on securing against them.
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