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| Fri, August 29 2003 | 10:26AM | PermaLink |
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It is rare that people have more than one personal encounter with a virus as anyone caught out once tends to work hard to avoid a second infection.
But for some security hi-tech workers the job of fighting off viruses and their malicious ilk is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week task.
It is a job that requires constant vigilance and many security firms run network monitoring centres to keep an eye on their customers' networks and the shifting tide of computer vandalism and crime.
The operation centres are the frontline of the information war. Symantec's European network operation centre sits inside a underground bunker in the Wiltshire countryside.
Bunker staff sit in air-conditioned comfort beyond blast doors and have fuel and water to survive for days without aid should the need arise.
Jeff Ogden, manager of the European operations centre, says the number of potential security problems and the speed at which they are exploited is accelerating.
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