With the peak online holiday buying season just around the corner, Internet security experts are urging U.S. companies to enhance their security posture in light of recent threats made by hacker groups in the Middle East to launch an electronic holy . . .
With the peak online holiday buying season just around the corner, Internet security experts are urging U.S. companies to enhance their security posture in light of recent threats made by hacker groups in the Middle East to launch an electronic holy war against companies with ties to Israel.

"Most companies are spending less than 3% of their budgets on security," said Richard Hunter, managing vice president for e-metrics consulting at Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Group Inc. "They are getting lucky. Any hacker with a screwdriver can knock them over. The lessons that have been learned so far have not been learned by a critical mass of the potential victims."

And those lessons, according to a recent Gartner study on the Middle East hacker threat, are many. "When a potential threat has been identified, standard enterprise security measures should be complemented by increased firewall analysis, intrusion detection and detailed inspection of site usage logs," said the study.

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