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The Importance of American Business Information Protection It never rains but it pours, Just as bosses and boards have final

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问题             The Importance of American Business Information Protection
    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 IT systems and business processes in search of potential vulnerabilities.
    "Data is becoming an asset which needs to be guarded as much as any other asset," says Haim Mendelson of Stanford University’s business school. "The ability to 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 dim most executive 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 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. That may change fast; lots of proposed data-security legislation is 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 Para. 4, what puzzles the author is that some bosses fail to______.
选项 A、see 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 推理判断题。第四段在第三段对于信息保护重要性描述的基础上，从信任的角度来强调信息保护的重要性。首句是过渡句，指出企业老板对资料保护问题的认识不足。第二句指出一旦信任遭到破坏，恢复起来代价巨大。最后强调个人信息的泄露将大大破坏客户对企业的信任度，然而很多管理人员却没有意识到问题的严重性。A是上述内容的概括，故为正确选项。B“意识到个人资料的敏感性”是对该句中sensitive personal data的字面解释。C“认识到恢复资料需付出的昂贵代价”是对expensive to restore的解释。D“意识到信任的经济价值”是对most valuable of economic assets的解释，这三项都是对文章细节内容的肤浅解释，而不是合理概括和推断，故均可排除。
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