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With the growth in volume and sophistication of internal and external threats, information security is one of the most critical issues facing companies today. In a post 9/11 environment, the terms business continuity and risk management are becoming common parlance within a wide range organizations. No longer a dark and mysterious process, computer forensics has been significantly on the scene for more than five years now. "Though the enemy be stronger in numbers, we may prevent him from fighting. Scheme so as to discover his plans and the likelihood of their success. Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots." Sun Tzu, The Art of War Business continuity (BC) is now well recognised as a critical business requirement by most companies, even if they themselves do not adopt comprehensive BC plans. Security is a serious issue for every organization today. “An Ounce of Prevention” or “A Pound of Cure?” Picture the scene: The 5,000 strong workforce of a multinational company are returning to work after a long and very enjoyable Christmas break and they're thinking about easing themselves back into the routine of work once more. Visa is to step up the fight against crime by releasing a fraud detection tool to a variety of European banks.

BorderWare's SteelGate SG-200 runs the company's own firewall, Firewall Server 7.1, running on the S-Core secure operating system. Rather than building an appliance from the ground up, the SG-200 is simply a PC (2GHz Intel Celeron Processor, 512MB RAM and a 40GB hard disk) in a rack-mountable chassis.

There is a clear need today for experienced information systems security professionals, and increasing numbers of IT professionals are rushing into to fill the gap.

ViraLock takes a different approach to securing a users' email system from the ravages of viruses and other malware. Rather than prevent a virus infection, the software is designed to work with existing anti-virus applications and firewall systems to prevent a users' mailbox from being compromised by an executable of any type.

Security is fast becoming one of the telecoms’ industry’s ‘hot topics’. This reached a new peak in October when the TeleManagement Forum committed to adding a new security layer to the architecture of NGOSS (New Generation Operation Support Systems). But how has this come about? What’s changed so dramatically? And what issues do the new proposals address? Organisations that do not include security as a criterion when building or buying software will see system downtime caused by security vulnerabilities treble from 5 per cent to 15 per cent of downtime in 2008, industry experts have warned. The purpose of multi-channel banking is to make things easier for the customer to access his or her account wherever and whenever they need to. However, with the increasing number of channels coming on stream, the architecture is becoming much more complicated and expensive to administer for banks and building societies. What is in essence a framework for designing, developing and building a new generation of applications around web standards and protocols, web services promises to make it far easier to integrate applications across disparate hardware and software platforms - a constant gripe with existing technology. Backed by all of the major IT vendors (Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle, etc.), web services certainly will not suffer from a lack of effort or exposure, but will it take off and what are the issues?

Building scripts for testing software can be an arduous task, beset by pitfalls, but QA Wizard surrounds you with safety and simplicity as you move your product out of development and into the real world. Now QA Wizard makes it easy to incorporate thorough testing of a software suite, whether Windows, web or Java based. Other supportive suites are available that dovetail into the automated operation of QA Wizard, such that software is not only tested, but anomalies are tracked and flow optimized.

A building society based in the North Easy of England has rolled out an IP VPN to improve customer service and security.