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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.
The statement : "It never rains but it pours" is used to introduce______.
选项 A、the fierce business competition.
B、the feeble boss-board relations
C、the threat from news reports
D、the severity of data leakage
答案D
解析 主旨大义题。考查考生对全文的理解。第一段第一句话就是：祸不单行。接着描述了那些公司的老板和董事们在解决了糟糕的财务方面的问题以及一些投诉问题、改善公司的管理以后，他们面临着一个新的问题，即数据不安全的问题。而第二段讲到一些大公刊的大量客户和雇员信息泄露，第三、四段讲到保护客户信息的重要性，最后一段分析出现数据泄漏这一问题的可能原因。该题考文章作者用“It never vains but it pours．”这一谚语作为开头的意图，从后面几句话的意思可以看出：作者用这一谚语引发数据泄漏的严重性这一文章的主题。同时，文章中的所有细节、举例均会成为支持作者主题观点成立的有利证据，因此，D是正确答案。
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