“Security is a balance of trade-offs, and it is generally not a good idea to spend more dollars on securing an item than the item itself is worth,” says Glen Seimetz, solution architect in availability/security consulting at SunGard Availability Services (www.availability.sungard.com). “It is also not prudent to restrict yourself in a security straightjacket so that business flexibility and competitiveness are crippled—that’s a very high price to pay.”

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