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Sniffer Portable is more than a product. The Gordano Messaging Server is not an anti-spam product but a suite that includes a mail-filtering component. Think what the world of IT was like in 1990. A few lucky researchers, military personnel, government workers and assorted hangers-on would have been able to enjoy the novelty of fledgling email and internet services. If you were a forward-thinking large corporate, you might well have a mainframe or a minicomputer network storing and processing crucial data and, although dial-up modems could connect systems to each other and enable remote terminal access, viruses and hack-attacks were minor worries. The occasional infected floppy disc might contain some malware that could potentially compromise the contents of your expensive 40mb hard drive, but a relatively up-to-date antivirus programme would probably protect you. Hackers and virus writers were mostly a minority sub-culture of cyber-kids operating from their bedrooms bragging and swapping war stories on underground bulletin boards. Every month SC Magazine publishes product reviews, providing the latest information on the solutions available to secure your systems. A little over a year has passed since the publication of the University of Maryland's paper "Your 802.11 Wireless Network Has No Clothes" (www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/wireless.pdf) which detailed a number of holes in wired equivalent privacy (WEP), the encryption protocol used to secure 802.11b wireless LANs. When Arthur Andersen partner David Duncan met with his colleagues in their Houston office last fall, just before the onset of their now infamous computer file delete-fest, they did not couch their planned mission as a purposeful endeavor to destroy evidence relevant to an impending Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation. At first glance, it seems obvious that crime extends well beyond the boundaries of technology and computers. “IT crime constitutes an ‘enormous’ threat to our society!” With the mid-term elections come and gone, it’s time for the Bush Administration to re-focus its attention on protecting cyberspace. The threats and problems posed by email in large and complex organizations are of a different type and scale of magnitude from the email problems that such organizations first solved with an email ‘point product’ some years previously. For the second time in four years, the U.S. General Accounting Office reported identity theft as the fastest growing crime in America, with businesses and consumers losing billions of dollars to identity thieves. A generation ago, the world of espionage and counter-intelligence was populated by agents who operated in the shadows of eavesdropping, codes and hollowed-out books to collect and transmit important information. What is the solution to laptop loss? Software tracking, a layered approach to security, or is there another way? Illena Armstrong reports Security tools are important for protecting company systems, but, says Adam Lipson, focusing on people can yield better results David Foote asks if businesses have got the right idea when it comes to protecting their valuable IT assets Surely by now, organizations should have erected the strongest barriers to hackers. But, as Illena Armstrong and others point out, many holes remain On a sunny Tuesday afternoon, a call comes into the help desk notifying a technician that a strange and inflammatory web page is presented whenever someone goes to the corporation’s public web site. Every day more and more critical services migrate to the network. Hackers manage to successfully break into systems much more often than you might realise.