Unlike past attempts to manage security, these companies are concentrating on gathering real-time intelligence on attacks, vulnerabilities and exploits. Using data mining and artificial intelligence techniques, they can predict where problems could appear on a particular customer's network and then design . . .
Unlike past attempts to manage security, these companies are concentrating on gathering real-time intelligence on attacks, vulnerabilities and exploits. Using data mining and artificial intelligence techniques, they can predict where problems could appear on a particular customer's network and then design a system to counteract them.

And hackers are still having their way. In the latest Computer Crime and Security Survey, released last week by the Computer Security Institute and the FBI, 85 percent of respondents said they had detected a security breach within the last 12 months. More telling was that 27 percent of those surveyed didn't even know if there had been unauthorized access or misuse of their company's site.

"Companies have been spending a lot of money on security, but they can't keep up with the management of it because they don't have people with the knowledge to do it," said Stijn Bijnens, CEO of Ubizen, of Leuven, Belgium, with U.S. headquarters in Reston, Va.

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