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With internal attacks on systems becoming ever more frequent, and the necessity for data accuracy increasing under corporate compliance legislation, I decided it was time to examine whether centralized user provisioning could secure information cost-effectively. According to a report by Jupiter Research (July 2001 Jupiter Executive Survey), 49.5 per cent of CIOs considered the sensitivity of their company's data as 'low.’ You wouldn't walk into a bank and find money or valuables laid out in plain view and easy to reach. A new law in California means you need comprehensive incident and forensics planning says John Patzakis. It’s not so many years ago that organizations (misguidedly) held the view that security was the province of the IT department. Because of our increased reliance on IT, the effects of downtime, security breaches or deliberate attacks on a company’s IT system can cause serious, sometimes irreparable, damage. 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. The leader of the UK's Conservative party could be in trouble with the law after urging party member to forward his email to ten "neighbours, friends and other contacts". More than 197,000 personal records were exposed in a security breach at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, school officials said this week. A hacker may have gained access to images of checks sent to the University of Notre Dame after the breach of one of the college’s servers earlier this month.

For anyone connecting to the internet, security has long been an issue. However, for many small businesses, the cost of security has also been a big issue and a heavy burden because the cost of security has often outweighed its benefits.

The security of an environment is often won or lost at the architecture level. It seems obvious to me that electronic security took a significant step forward in 2001. In his last column [www.infosecnews.com/opinion/2002/05/15_04.htm], Bill Van Emburg discussed the urgent requirement for companies to address the privacy of their customers' data. Hidden in this column is a secret message. 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 recent draft on employee monitoring, released earlier this year by the U.K. Information Commissioner, has caused a stir among employees and employers. Managed security services providers (MSSPs) are dead. The public sector IT market is enjoying healthy growth in many developed countries. The Internet Law and Public Policy Forum held a conference in Seattle this fall.