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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. Buying the latest tools to secure your assets is not the way forward. A structured plan for your infosec is vital, says Illena Armstrong. There is always a trade-off between security needs and economics. Richard Starnes asks how businesses can strike the right balance. There is an increasing range of valuable qualifications that an information security expert can gain, says Marcia Savage This article appeared in a very abbreviated form in SC Magazine’s January 2003 issue and is presented here in full. Terrorism (n): the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce societies or governments. From its early beginnings to the present day, insecure emails have consistently caused trouble for their senders and recipients in a variety of ways. Knowing when to call in a professional can be the most important decision an organization can make when it comes to security breaches – you can’t take chances if there’s a known breach or overwhelming evidence that one has occurred. Over the past few years, Information Security has emerged as a separate and distinct profession from traditional systems and physical security career fields. 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. Cyber blackmail is on the increase, a new report has found. Executives and corporate boards need to be vigilant about the threats posed by a global organized crime industry that has the capacity to "bring down firms at will," according to IT security industry insiders. The vast majority of business PC users believe that UK legal authorities were too soft on the members of the Thr34t-Krew cyber crime gang who were sentenced last week for causing unauthorised modification of computers with intent. Researchers have demonstrated a new forensics technology designed to help catch cyber thieves and digital pirates. The digital fingerprinting technology, which was developed by academics at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering, is designed to help protect digital assets and identify national security leak sources. Frequently, the media characterizes computer crimes as those involving hacking (gaining unauthorized computer network access), cracking (another word for gaining unauthorized access to a computer or program), or web page defacing (gaining unauthorized access to a web page and changing its content). Infosecurity is kind of like visiting the dentist: we all know we have to do it, but we seem to put it off for as long as humanly possible. The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), a coalition of security vendors, is urging the federal government to make cybersecurity research and development a priority. As it continues to offer little IT security guidance and flails in its leadership role on cyber security issues, the Department of Homeland Security is "almost becoming irrelevant." Amit Yoran, the U.S. federal government's most recent cyber security leader, is the main keynote speaker for SC Magazine's next IT Security Executive Forum. Amit Yoran, director of the National Cyber Security Division, claims that progress is being made with the strategy to secure America’s cyberspace. However, the strategy just had its first birthday and not everyone celebrated. Marcia Savage reports