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More security advice from an industry analyst doesn't usually rouse much interest. Then why such a stir after the recent Gartner Group report on threats from portable storage media? There are many damaging consequences of a poorly planned security assessment, says Gunter Ollmann. If there is a dispute over an email sent last year, will you be able to locate it? Better make sure it’s stored away safely. Ron Condon reports David Brunswick, technical director for Tumbleweed Communications Europe and a member of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, discusses potential solutions in the fight against phishing The security of an environment is often won or lost at the architecture level. Reviewing a security strategy is a major undertaking that will test a wide range of skills far beyond IT competencies. The amazing book of Lance Spitzner "Know Your Enemy" seems to have opened the floodgates of honeypot deployment. Information security is a hot topic these days, something that often gets credited to an increased awareness of terrorism. Information security and physical security are frequently viewed as either conflicting or as far removed from one another as the sun is from the moon. The good news is that over the past several years, security analysis has become a widely accepted and integral part of development and deployment processes. Security managers are under increasing pressure from corporate management to justify investments in information security technologies. At first glance, it seems obvious that crime extends well beyond the boundaries of technology and computers. Earlier this year, researchers in Sweden announced that during a research study, they discovered that bread, potato chips, French fries and even cereal contain high levels of the carcinogen acrylamide. Stereotyping is very dangerous in investigations, particularly in the field of information security. In an effort to boost sales and generate revenue, one U.S. multinational energy company recently embraced the Internet to bolster external communication and internal collaboration. Even the best of security policies will be ineffectual without proper implementation, says Gunter Ollmann Some security themes keep re-occurring. Gunter Ollmann warns against one of the most common problems Terrorism gave an impetus to DR planning, says Ron Condon, but other factors have kept its importance alive Organizations are becoming increasingly aware that if they fail to implement successful security management processes, it could expose them to untenable risk. One common way of attracting visitors to a web site is to make it look attractive by incorporating animated graphics and interactive features written in Java, Flash and other common browser plug-in programs.