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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.
It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that______.
选项 A、data leakage is more severe in Europe
B、FTC’ s decision is essential to data security
C、California takes the lead in security legislation
D、legal penalty is a major Solomon to data leakage
答案D
解析 段落推理题。考查考牛对文章最后一段的理解。本段大意是：目前的这种状况可能是由于在美国缺乏对数据泄漏进行法律惩处这一事实所造成的。加州最近才通过一个法案，即如果数据丢失，公司需要告诉受害人。华盛顿也正在讨论很多条有关数据安全方面的提案。四千万信用卡信息被盗案的严重性使得美国联邦贸易委员会的一个重要决定相形见绌，这一重要决定是：如果公司不能提供足够的数据安全保障，管理者将采取措施。从本段第一句话我们可以做出选项D这一推断，因此是答案。
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