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When considering the most critical to information security in the modern day, one of the most credible is one that has seen a recent increase in occurrence over the past decade. Deliberate software attacks on company information systems have become very common. This has caused a heightened awareness of corporate information security as a result. It has helped to curb some of the impact but has failed to prevent it. "In the last 10 years, I don't think we've seen breaches that have affected consumers at this scale," said Ondrej Krehel, information security officer for Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Identity Theft 911. "It's been the worst year in a decade." (Liebowitz, 2011) Recently we have seen attacks on Sony, RSA, Lockheed Martin, Epsilon, Fox Broadcasting, NASA, PBS, the European Space Agency, the British and French Treasuries, the FBI and Citigroup. All of these took place within the first six months on 2011 alone.