Increasing every day in frequency and sophistication, planned cyber attacks are impacting systems, data and user access at virtually every business and government organization. Whether accidentally triggered by users opening their daily e-mail, or planned denial of services attack triggering a thousand zombie systems, IT management and corporate executives must be ready to respond, minimize and defeat threats to revenue generating and citizen facing operations. In many cases, the decision to protect information assets may materially impact agency or corporate budgets, previously planned investment and projected shareholder returns.