Analysis - The terrors and the errors [IT Change Management]

According to last month's Sophos "Security Threat Report", concern is increasing that computer applications running critical national infrastructures are vulnerable to malevolent hacks. Such hacks could in theory switch control of power and gas supplies, say, to the keyboards of hostile entities, enabling them to wreak damage and disruption. Similar threats face crucial financial computer platforms that underpin national economies, and even emergency services communication channels.