A gap exists between employer demands and their perception of how well brokers deliver on most counts.

Large businesses are constantly targeted by hackers, and recent reports suggest that many large companies don't take the necessary precautions to prevent outsiders from accessing their computer systems.

While reading Elizabeth Kolbert's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Sixth Extinction, I started thinking about some grim statistics that have been circulating lately about another extinction that of the broker.