Despite the current emphasis on security in the IT industry, CIOs and IT managers are still not paying enough attention to the problems facing their organizations, a panel of security experts said Wednesday. "Security is still very much an afterthought," said . . .
Despite the current emphasis on security in the IT industry, CIOs and IT managers are still not paying enough attention to the problems facing their organizations, a panel of security experts said Wednesday. "Security is still very much an afterthought," said Robert Thomas, CEO of Netscreen Technologies Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif. "It's reactive and not proactive."

Thomas' comments came during a keynote panel discussion at the NetWorld+Interop show here that also included representatives from Network Associates Inc., Enterasys Networks and Internet Security Systems Inc.

The other panelists echoed Thomas' sentiments, saying that although security currently is getting a lot of attention, the basic infrastructure of the Internet and corporate networks is still fundamentally vulnerable.

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