“The ability to guard customer data is the key to market value, which the board is responsible for on behalf of shareholders.”

　　①“Data is becoming an asset which needs to be guarded as much as any other asset,” says Haim Mendelson of Stanford University’s business school.

　　②“The ability to guard customer data is the key to market value, which the board is responsible for on behalf of shareholders.”

　　③Indeed, just as there is the concept of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), perhaps it is time for GASP, Generally Accepted Security Practices, suggested Eli Noam of New York’s Columbia Business School.

　　④“Setting the proper investment level for security, redundancy, and recovery is a management issue, not a technical one,” he says.

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　　①斯坦福大学商学院的汉姆·孟德尔森说：“数据正在变成一种资产，与任何别的资产一样，它也需要受到保护”。

　　②“保护客户数据的能力是保证市场价值的关键，董事会有责任为了股东的利益对市场价值负责。”

　　③纽约哥伦比亚商学院的伊利·诺姆建议说，事实上，正如有公认会计原则一样，也许现在应该制定公认安全准则了。

　　④他还说：“为数据安全、数据备份和数据恢复设立恰当的投资标准是管理问题，不是技术问题。”