In the past two years the Internet has experienced a 2,000 percent increase in worm-driven DDOS attacks. William Cook: In the Internet environment, negligent third parties may be the only source of loss recovery. Cook: Companies should be able to prove in court that it had a security plan and took appropriate security precautions. Cook, a partner with Wildman, Allen & Dixon in Chicago, specializes in intellectual property and business litigation. He says a company can avoid or reduce its liability exposure if it maintains a proactive IT staff and aggressively gathers information about DDOS technology.”]
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