Companies are increasingly defined by the right combination of ones and zeros not by bricks and mortar. This digital transformation has given rise to “the extended enterprise ” and with it a breeding ground for attacks on IT systems. This year hackers breached Zappos LinkedIn Yahoo and other heavily trafficked sites and then posted customers’ sensitive information—including user names passwords e-mail addresses and device IDs—on the Internet for the world to see. According to a 2012 study of 56 benchmarked companies released in November by the Ponemon Institute an independent research firm information theft this year accounted for 44% ...