It would be easy to begin with a couple of scare stories about companies losing thousands of customer records to hackers, phishers stealing millions of dollars, and fraudsters making lives miserable for IT security professionals. There are plenty of anecdotes out there.

But let's face it. You already know how important security is. No IT exec wants to be explaining to the board of directors what happened after a company makes the evening news.

"It would be a bad day if I woke up to find Westfield had a data breach," says John V. Doan, information security architect and engineer at the Westfield Group.

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