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When F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen comes to town, people listen. David Quainton talks to the malware guru about the future of antivirus Without wishing to wave the Union Jack too vigorously, I couldn't help feeling a slight wave of pride at the achievements of the Jericho Forum, which is celebrating its first year of life. Ron Condon speaks to a woman who trains IT professionals to win friends and influence people, right up to the boardroom "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to lose it," said Warren Buffett in 1930.The good reputation of a company or a brand is now seen as an essential element on the corporate balance sheet. It is a fragile asset that can be lost forever, unless all levels of the business safeguard it. The UK's biggest national investigation into identity fraud has kicked off in partnership with five of the six largest British banks and three of the four largest mobile operators. Five of the seven largest credit card issuers and two of the largest online and offline retail consumer finance companies in the country will also contribute to the study. My last opinion piece (Winning the Virus War - But When? July 31, www.infosecnews.com/opinion/2002/07/31_01.htm) resulted in some (positive) responses, for which I’m grateful. So you have a mobile workforce, you have invested in laptops, PDAs, mobiles and smartphones and your staff are out there chasing and winning business. Open source software (OSS) is firmly entrenched in the infrastructure of the Internet, and is now making inroads into the security market too. But although the darling of techies everywhere, OSS has its doubters. In particular, many corporate managers have concerns about support, accountability, and longevity. SC Magazine asked John Cheney, Matt Sergeant and Alyn Hockey for the methods and dastardly tricks that spammers use to evade spam defenses. Here are some tactics the good guys discovered during the fight CipherTrust's IronMail appliance offers an impressive collection of features for mail security. We all love a bargain, so Don Parker advises how to make big savings in your network security training budget A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to sit in on a class on computer forensics, courtesy of Guidance Software. For those participants and investors in the managed security services (MSS) space, the last two years has seemed more like two lifetimes. Knowing where your network is vulnerable is half the battle. Illena Armstrong looks at the need for penetration test assessments How often have you played the ‘scruples game’ amongst your friends, to question how much they would they rob a bank for - £5 million, £10 million, £25 million? All too often, we shoot ourselves in the foot as information security professionals by the language we use with executives. Picture this - you are the CIO at Fort Knox plc (a large financial services organization) and you reckon you’ve got this security thing sussed. With the growth of Instant Messaging and peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, businesses are increasingly facing security and management challenges.