“Fewer than half of blue-chip companies believe that their
ebusiness and security strategies are effectively coordinated.
Business managers are guilty of demanding ebusiness at all costs
and security is overlooked, according to research by analyst
group Xephon.”
“Nine out of 10 respondents in the Xephon report still rated the
mainframe as the safest repository to store their data. “All
platforms have strong security tools, but many respondents felt
that the other options fell short of the mainframe environment’s
total security,” added Lillycrop.”
“Unix was rated as the safest mid-range server environment,
beating NT/Windows 2000 into second place. The Linux platform was
rated as the least secure platform to store data. Lillycrop
said this was partly due to a lack of user-awareness, adding that
“Linux tools are still only developing.”