Security News

It’s no secret that we now live in a world where technical changes are coming at us at an ever-increasing rate.

Analysts and marketers love surveys.

Contrary to popular belief, an aggressive pro-privacy stance is good for business.

Following on the heels of applying the patch Fred Rica style (see www.infosecnews.com/opinion/2002/04/17_04.htm), the SNMP vulnerability has loomed into view as the next procrastinating administrator’s nightmare.

It seems obvious to me that electronic security took a significant step forward in 2001.

My email went belly up the other weekend, despite the fact that yours truly has been using the Internet since the late 1980s and had taken solid precautions against problems occurring.

In 1984, the London Metropolitan Police Service, under the efforts of John Austen, had the pioneering vision to start one of the first computer crime units in the world.

With the recent submission to Parliament of the Communications Bill that will give rise to the new Office of Communications (OFCOM), the U.K. is undergoing a dramatic change in the regulation of its communications industries.

Organizations are increasingly relying on application service providers (ASPs) to perform critical functions in their environments.

Have you ever noticed the way in which new security solutions seem to appear as an appendage to an already recognized requirement of the IT department’s security strategy?