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Electronic message management company Sendmail, Inc. Monday released the results of a June poll it conducted of 120 IT professionals, which showed that about 40 percent have decided to roll out some form of sender authentication technology to stop spam and increase productivity. A year ago, Homefirst Community Trust was struggling to keep up with the flood of patches for new software vulnerabilities. IT manager Pat Black tells Ron Condon how he managed to get security under control Marcia Savage asks IT heads of four California counties how the ISF document has strengthened security With the proliferation of worms being bred to attack your security, patch management is becoming increasingly time consuming. Ron Condon asks if there is an easier way The PGP desktop products (version 8.0 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 Microsoft's newly appointed CIO Ron Markezich talked about the vendor's internal IT security in a presentation Thursday at Microsoft's campus in Mountain View, Calif. Mark Ungerman provides some guidelines and clarifies the need for supported information security policies In a post-Sept. 11 world, the security community is being asked to address a growing list of sobering scenarios that range from the newly plausible to the truly frightening. Traditionally, security administration has focused on enforcement products. Even Mickey Mouse is buying into it. Almost every day we hear in the news about allegations centered on communications privacy being violated either by employers or law enforcement agencies. CERT (www.cert.org) has released a comprehensive guide for protecting information systems. 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. Observation and monitoring of computer intruders have long been performed in a haphazard fashion, if at all. As the Homeland Security Act makes its way through the United States Congress, the topic of homeland security has become a relevant discussion in the information security marketplace. 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? Today's users consider email a major component of their business and personal communications, and demand the convenience of email access from any location at any time. The "hashkeeper" paradigm or model was first introduced a number of years ago by Brian Deering of the National Drug Intelligence Center (www.hashkeeper.org). Sony’s new memory sticks have riled the business world into banning them from use, Louise Murray asks why?