It never rains but it pours. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problemthreatens it—especially in America—the sort of nasty headlines that【S1】______inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: datainsecurity. Leave, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right,【S2】______and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is now high on the boss’s agenda in businesses with every variety.【S3】______ Several massive leakages of customer and employer data this【S4】______year—from organizations as diverse as Time Warner, the American defense contractor Science Applications International Corp and even the University of California, Berkeley—have left managers hurriedlypeer into their intricate IT systems and business processes in【S5】______the search of potential vulnerabilities.【S6】______ "Data is becoming an asset which needs to be guarded as many【S7】______as any other asset," says Haim Mendelson of Stanford University’s business school. "The ability to guard customer data is the key tomarket value, what the board is responsible for on behalf of【S8】______shareholders". Indeed, just like there is the concept of Generally【S9】______Accepted Accounting Principles(GAAP), perhaps it is time for GASP, Generally Accepted Security Practices, suggested Eli Noamof New York’s Columbia Business School. "Setting up the proper【S10】______investment level for security, redundancy and recovery is a management issue, not a technical one," he says. 【S4】