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The fundamental basis for any kind of relationship is trust: the difficulty lies in attaining it. ISO 17799 was adopted in a fast-track process by the International Organization for Standardization in 2000. A lot of new terms have come at us over the past decade as computers have reached an unbelievable level of sophistication and speed. Co-incident with the news about the formation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Defense is the breaking of a story about a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ‘research project’ exploring the viability of sifting through huge amounts of transaction data looking for possible terrorist activities. 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. In an effort to boost sales and generate revenue, one U.S. multinational energy company recently embraced the Internet to bolster external communication and internal collaboration. Vital business information should be carefully stored but, Jon Tullett asks, can you be sure it really is locked away safely? Knowing where your network is vulnerable is half the battle. Illena Armstrong looks at the need for penetration test assessments Tighter regulation and higher levels of cyber attacks will increase the role of the CSO in 2004. Marcia Savage reports Digital attacks often mirror attacks in the real world. Illena Armstrong asks if they are inevitable and how to respond. John Woodward contends that, by properly addressing privacy issues, a successful deployment is possible Security, physical, cyber, and otherwise, is on everyone’s mind these days. With the internet and mobile working playing an increasingly important roles in business, connecting to internal systems is becoming far easier. For a business continuity plan to be truly effective at the time of interruption or disaster, everyone within the company needs to pull together to make the plan work and turn interruption into continuation. Because of our increased reliance on IT, the effects of downtime, security breaches or deliberate attacks on a company’s IT system can cause serious, sometimes irreparable, damage. "The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable." Sun Tzu, The Art of War On May 29, 2003, the Computer Security Institute (CSI) and the FBI published the results of their most recent Computer Crime and Security Survey, now in its eighth year. No longer a dark and mysterious process, computer forensics has been significantly on the scene for more than five years now. Wireless PCs and wireless laptops are being increasingly used in both business and the home.

Ingrian offers a range of appliances that are designed to secure any application that uses secure socket layer (SSL) transactions, while at the same time speeding up the performance. The company has recently added other features, including authentication, authorization, GZIP compression and an interface to external intrusion detection systems.