The same powerfulness providing the ability to immediately share information literally at the speed of light also creates extreme security challenges to ensure the continued confidentiality, integrity and availability of your information.  International exposure is assumed with the Internet - your computer is immediately located in "all parts of the city", the best and the worst.  Your challenge is to now live by two primary assumptions :

1. You will lose or have stolen from you physical and logical assets, and
2. You will be eavesdropped upon. 

Protecting your assets today is your burden - including information; the difference is that you have to protect your digital information from the world not just your neighbor's children crashing in to your car.  Asset protection is about incident response - you will have an incident it is how well you respond that mitigates your exposure.  Of course, you also hope that you can establish enough safeguards that you are not vulnerable. You must strike a balance between the two while assuring legal, regulatory and contractual obligations.

Enable yourself to proactively secure and respond - watch several short videos on "Protecting Information".