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Question about cybersecurity [View all]
Hi all,
I'm no expert on cybersecurity, so please be patient with me. It seems that every day, a new disclosure of a hack comes out. The SEC was hacked. We all know about the Equifax debacle. The list goes on and on.
I know *some* information must be kept online, but a simple (but maybe unworkable ?) solution is to take a lot of the super-sensitive information offline or make it even more difficult to access online somehow (2 factor authentication, etc).
You all in IT, please tell me the practical problems. It almost seems as if we need to go back to sneaker-net with a lot of sensitive information. Thank you in advance!
Steve
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