07-29-2007, 09:07 AM
Quote:For startup e-commerce companies, protecting customer data doesn't always come naturally. Small matters such as getting a business idea out of the starting gates and into the race -- not to mention winning those very first customers -- tend to overshadow the many liabilities associated with collecting and storing customer data.
However, liabilities they are, no matter how big the company or whether it realizes it or not.
"It's sort of like those old Mickey Rooney movies, where they would get five or six people together and say, 'Let's put on a play'," Mark Rasch, former head of the Justice Department's computer crime unit and managing director of technology for FTI Consulting, told the E-Commerce Times. "People often think all they need are coders and a Web site, and the business will run itself."
Alas, that's not quite the case, as companies sometimes learn the hard way...
full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/bNW4e2vT...tter.xhtml