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Top Ten Security Stories of 2004: Page 8 of 12

The problem is that many firms have yet to develop the skills required to tackle this problem. At the same time, vendors are rushing to develop products that help plug the VOIP security gap.

Such is the importance of VOIP that TippingPoint Technologies Inc., which was regarded as a VOIP trailblazer among security vendors, was recently snapped up by 3Com Corp. (Nasdaq: COMS)
for $340 million (see 3Com Takes TippingPoint).

Clearly, we haven’t heard the last of all this.

3. Expect the Unexpected – Security Approaches Day Zero

How do you protect against unknown cyber-attacks? Increasingly, vendors are launching technologies that offer "zero-day" protection -- essentially, guarding against unforeseen attacks.