The Internet will never be fully secure, but diligence and a number of safeguards applied by businesses and government could curb hackers' access to proprietary information, a General Accounting Office official said Wednesday. "The Internet is not secure for a reason," said Rahul Gupta, assistant director in the Office of the Chief Technologist at GAO. "It was designed to share information, not protect it from something." Gupta addressed the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' national auditing update conference.