1. Boiling Springs Savings Bank did a background check on Perimeter before hiring it. Search the Web for resources that can help an organization do background checks on IT security firms. What did you find? Did you find a couple of Web sites or certification organizations that offer some guarantee of IT security firms? If so, whom did you find?
2. Turning over IT security to an outside organization is tantamount to giving another organization complete access to all your systems and information. What stipulations would you include in a service level agreement with an IT security outsourcer to ensure that it didn't exploit the openness of your systems and steal strategic and sensitive information?