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The growth of e-security products and services is creating an administrative headache for enterprises. From its early beginnings to the present day, insecure emails have consistently caused trouble for their senders and recipients in a variety of ways. These days I spend my time breaking into networks and web servers for a living. Network and data security is evolving. As I write this article I note that Infosecurity Europe is currently conducting an online survey, asking participants to consider if they would download their list of contacts or competitive information, to take with them when they leave their current employment. Organizations are increasingly being asked to provide staff with remote access to corporate systems. Many companies are spending on corporate security in a fragmented and often directionless way, partly because of the bewildering complexity of security solutions. Organizations are becoming increasingly aware that if they fail to implement successful security management processes, it could expose them to untenable risk. Reviewing a security strategy is a major undertaking that will test a wide range of skills far beyond IT competencies. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are cited as one of the major technology successes of the last decade. Here’s a question: how many non-work related emails do you send and receive every day from your office email address? Defining what constitutes intellectual property can lead to differences of opinion. Far from being the ‘nice to have’ it was once thought to be, IT security has finally reached the level where it is viewed as an essential consideration for businesses today. Given a choice between spending money on enterprise resource planning (ERP) or information security, organizations typically choose the former. There is a computer security mantra which says that the basic issues to manage are “ports, passwords and patches”. Traditionally many organisations were of the opinion that security breaches were something that only affected ‘other’ companies and would never happen to them. Bond movies will always be associated with state-of-the-art technology, but few of the products he uses or encounters ever make it into the real world. Leave your laptop or personal handheld at home when you join the Christmas rush and revelry, or risk losing your mobile device and all the information which resides on it. Ohio University sent out the first of more than a quarter-million notices of a server breach that compromised the personal information of more than 300,000 people and organizations last week. MasterCard International said today it is responding to a "potential" security breach at a U.K.-based retailer – but would not confirm whether any of its cardholders were affected.