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Best practice (ISO 17799) advocates the development of information security policies to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. Attacks using social engineering techniques can be difficult to defend against, as Gunter Ollmann discovers. What is most likely to bring your systems down? A minor problem might be as bad as a natural disaster argues Illena Armstrong Bankers would be considered negligent if they locked a bank’s outer doors and left the vault’s doors open at night. It’s not so many years ago that organizations (misguidedly) held the view that security was the province of the IT department. SSL is the backbone of the way we secure connections between internet users and web servers. The widespread impact of the SQL Slammer worm in January 2003 highlighted an issue that most security professionals see as a basic fact - IT system security is not based on a single installation, but on an ongoing management of risks and vulnerabilities. We often hear of prevention being better than cure. The ability to maintain a healthy balance between personal privacy and stringent enterprise security standards has been a sensitive and long-lasting struggle among security vendors and privacy advocate groups. This question was raised at a recent shareholders meeting: “Can the Board of Directors assure us that this organization’s information security program is deployed fairly and legally in every jurisdiction in which we operate?” When computer forensics is an essential component of an internal investigation, lack of familiarity with the legal and technical issues involved can prompt management to assign that component to its management information security staff. Security is a serious issue for every organization today.

This software is very much aimed at the auditing and information security industry and those that work within that field. It is basically a tool to audit information security in an automated fashion.