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  3. It never rains but it pours. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, a

It never rains but it pours. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, a

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问题     It never rains but it pours. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problem threatens to earn them — especially in America — the sort of nasty headlines that inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite : Data insecurity. Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is now high on the boss’ s agenda in businesses of every variety.
    Several massive leakages of customer and employee data this year — from organizations as diverse as Time Warner, the American defense contractor Science Applications International Corp and even the University of California — Berkeley — have left managers hurriedly peering into their intricate systems and business processes in search of potential vulnerabilities.
    "Data is becoming an asset which needs no be guarded as much as any other asset. " says Mendelson of Stanford University’ s business school , "The ability guard customer data is the key to market value, which the board is responsible for on behalf of shareholders. " Indeed, just as there is the concept of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles(GAAP). perhaps it is time for GASP. Generally Accepted Security Practices, suggested Eli Noam of New York’ s Columbia Business School. "Setting the proper investment level for security, redundancy, and recovery is a management issue, not a technical one. " he says.
    The mystery is that this should come as a surprise to any boss. Surely it should be obvious to the dimmest exccutive that trust, that most valuable of economic assets, is easily destroyed and hugely expensive to restore — and that few things are more likely to destroy trust than a company letting sensitive personal data get into the wrong hands.
    The current state of affairs may have been encouraged — though not justified — by the lack of legal penalty(in America, but not Europe)for data leakage. Until California recently passed a law. American firms did not have to tell anyone, even the victim, when data went astray, I hat may change fast lots of proposed data-security legislation now doing the rounds in Washington. D. C. Meanwhile. the theft of information about some 40 million credit-card accounts in America, disclosed on June 17th. overshadowed a hugely important decision a day earlier by America’ s Federal Trade Commission(FTC)that puts corporate America on notice that regulators will act if firms fail to provide adequate data security.
According to Paragraph 4, what puzzles the author is that some bosses fail to______.
选项 A、sec the link between trust and data protection
B、perceive the sensitivity of personal data
C、realize the high cost of data restoration
D、appreciate the economic value of trust
答案A
解析 事实细节题。考查考生对文章第四段的理解。本段的大意是：作者感到不解的是有些老板居然会对这个问题(信息泄露问题)感到惊讶。即使是最愚蠢的执行官都应该明白，信任是很容易被破坏的，要重建信任代价很大。而最容易让客户失去信任的就是公司使一些敏感的个人信息落入对手的手里。该题所问的是令作者不解的问题，四个选项中只有选项A的意思符合本段意思，因此是正确答案。
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