With IT budgets flat or declining, you might have expected security spending to be similarly under pressure. But it seems CIOs faced with rising threats - including those from malware and disgruntled employees - have decided that it pays to be wary.

Welcome to the Digital Era on Earth. In this new era, there exists a new class of criminals. To stop them, a select group of Cisco Engineers have been appointed to develop a state-of-the-art security force.

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Of about 950 people who said they had lost or left their jobs during the last 12 months, nearly 60 per cent admitted to taking confidential company information with them, including customer contact lists and other data that could potentially end up in the hands of a competitor.

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