Computer security incident response grows up
John M. Salomon, Patrik Elsa · Computer Fraud & Security · 2004
Information security in large corporate environments has made tremendous technical strides over the past years. Since the late 1980s, organizations have learned the need for defensive measures against compromise of sensitive data and resources, such as virus defense and firewalls, data encryption and communications security, and strong authentication, to name a few. Technical risk management, vulnerability analysis and new threat research have all combined into a science (or black magic, to outsiders.)