歷年考研英語(yǔ)閱讀理解2007年04

[00:00:30]2007年黑暗版歷年閱讀真題解析 第四篇 [00:01.18]It never rains but is pours. [00:03.03]Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, [00:08.49]and improved their feeble corporation governance, [00:11.60]a new problem threatens to earn them—especially in America— [00:15.20]the sort of nasty headlines that inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: data insecurity. [00:22.50]Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, [00:26.73]and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, [00:31.12]telecoms and air travel, [00:33.10]information protection is now high on the boss's agenda in businesses of every variety. [00:38.55]Several massive leakages of customer and employee data this year— [00:44.14]from organizations as diverse as Time Warner, [00:46.89]the American defense contractor Science Applications International Corp and even the University of California, [00:53.10]Berkeley—have left managers hurriedly peering into their intricate IT systems [00:58.06]and business processes in search of potential vulnerabilities. [01:01.51]“Data is becoming an asset which needs to be guarded as much as any other asset,” [01:07.45]says Haim Mendelson of Stanford University’s business School, [01:11.22]“The ability to guard customer data is the key to market value, [01:15.55]which the board is responsible for on behalf of shareholders”. [01:19.16]Indeed, just as there is the concept of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), [01:24.04]perhaps it is time for GASP, [01:26.88]Generally Accepted Security Practices, [01:29.42]suggested Eli Noam of New York’s Columbia Business School. [01:33.06]“Setting the proper investment level for security, redundancy, and recovery is a management issue, [01:40.20]not a technical one,” he says. [01:42.32]The mystery is that this should come as a surprise to any boss. [01:47.68]Surely it should be obvious to the dimmest executive that trust, [01:50.96]that most valuable of economic assets, [01:54.90]is easily destroyed and hugely expensive to restore— [01:58.52]and that few things are more likely to destroy trust than a company letting sensitive personal data get into the wrong hands.? [02:06.43]The current state of affairs may have been encouraged— [02:09.88]though not justified— [02:11.32]by the lack of legal penalty (in America, but not Europe) for data leakage. [02:14.83]Until California recently passed a law, [02:17.10]American firms did not have to tell anyone, [02:19.60]even the victim, when data went astray. [02:22.56]That may change fast: [02:24.12]lots of proposed data-security legislation is now doing the rounds in Washington, D.C. [02:29.72]Meanwhile, the theft of information about some 40 million credit-card accounts in America, [02:35.51]disclosed on June 17th, [02:37.92]overshadowed a hugely important decision a day earlier by America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [02:44.13]that puts corporate America on notice that regulators will act if firms fail to provide adequate data security.

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