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"I keep six honest serving men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who" (Rudyard Kipling, from ‘The Elephant’s Child’ in Just So Stories). Working to strict deadlines and under financial constraints, website developers are often forced to place security near the bottom of the list of requirements. Marcia Savage looks at the inevitable consequences We hear a lot about new vulnerabilities, but as Gunter Ollmann explains, there are still plenty waiting for a patch Symantec's $13.5 billion acquisition of Veritas Software makes sense, industry analysts said. Confusion reigns in the compliance world as UK board members know what the Companies Bill is but IT security professionals have absolutely no idea. Lycos has created so much love that it no longer needs to operate its vigilante website. “Make Love Not Spam” was laid to rest this weekend after a brief but eventful life attacking spamming websites. Lycos’ vigilante website “Make Love Not Spam,” appears to have run aground. The site, an attempt to flood known spamming sites with requests, is experiencing operating problems.

Backup for Workgroups is an unpretentious name for what turns out to be an uncomplicated product. Not much about this product is very clever, but that works to its advantage. Its lack of sophistication makes it a must-have for the workgroups it mentions, and for many more small business networks who might miss the point.

For the first time, a survey of information security worldwide has calculated the growth of the profession, and also charted its skills and training needs. SC Magazine was given exclusive access to the results. Illena Armstrong reports Data is the lifeblood of the organisation and any incidents, which stop access or result in a loss of critical data can have serious consequences for the business in terms of day-to-day operations and financial loss. This emphasises the ongoing need for back-up and recovery processes to be in place to minimise the effects of unplanned downtime and ensure the continuity of business processes. Paul Butler, principal consultant at Altiris, warns of the implications of not having sufficient processes in place to deal with the loss of business critical systems and data. Fires, power outages, cyberattacks. Natural and man-made disasters threaten every company, but in this increasingly internet-dependent economy, downtime and the losses caused by it are a major concern. The majority of UK companies are leaving their networks wide open to serious security risks arising from failure to control fast growing staff use of insecure 'plug & play' portable devices. We have seen it in ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ and ‘Star Wars’ and countless other movies. But could it happen in real life? Could a fraudster posing as somebody else easily get their hands on valuable assets? Trusted computing initiatives are a must but need to be fair to all parties before it can be accepted, a security expert said in the opening keynote speech of the ISSE/ICCC conference in Berlin. Data security is top of the list of IT concerns for small and medium-sized businesses in the UK, research carried out for the Institute Directors (IoD) has found.

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