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I am becoming more convinced that there are way too many interpretations of the word “privacy.” What arrives in our in-boxes these days is becoming progressively richer and fatter. The content includes HTML formatted rich text, hyperlinks and attachments of various types, including Office documents, databases, images, videos, etc. It is now estimated that more than 5 per cent of emails contain images. Due to the abundance of Internet security attacks, the news over the past year has been flooded with warnings and reports of numerous network vulnerabilities. Applications that wait to steal your personal information are legion, so Carlos Valiente recommends constant vigilence Both public and private sectors must work together for crisis planning and response says Richard Andrews Convincing management of infosec needs, says Richard O’Connor, requires amassing plenty of data first Handheld computing devices, like Palms and Pocket PCs, play an essential role in many people’s lives. As I write this article I note that Infosecurity Europe is currently conducting an online survey, asking participants to consider if they would download their list of contacts or competitive information, to take with them when they leave their current employment. No longer a dark and mysterious process, computer forensics has been significantly on the scene for more than five years now. "Though the enemy be stronger in numbers, we may prevent him from fighting. Scheme so as to discover his plans and the likelihood of their success. Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots." Sun Tzu, The Art of War Information security teams are under increasing pressure to demonstrate financial return on investment (ROI) for security projects. Information security is a reactive world. Business continuity (BC) is now well recognised as a critical business requirement by most companies, even if they themselves do not adopt comprehensive BC plans. Information security teams are under increasing pressure to demonstrate financial return on investment (ROI) for security projects.

GASP is probably most famous for being the auditing software of choice for the Business Software Alliance. A free download of a version of this software is available on its web site. However, it can only audit up to 100 PCs and is time-limited. The version we reviewed is very much angled at the enterprise managing thousands of systems.

iInventory is the latest version of LANauditor, which was launched back in 1990. This package can audit not only Windows-based PCs but also Macs and Linux systems. However the console that runs the whole show must be installed under Windows. The vendors recommend installing the software on a workstation instead of a server as it is claimed it is more secure, offers greater data throughput and clients do not need to access any part of the main program or data.

McAfee is one of the best-known names in anti-virus, and we expected impressive results from testing ePolicy Orchestrator 2.5. The product is capable of managing several anti-virus solutions, including McAfee's own and Symantec's Norton, with support for others in the pipeline. Although policies for separate products are configured individually, the integrated management interface will immediately be useful to large enterprises with multiple anti-virus solutions.