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More than ever before, businesses are struggling to address the information protection requirements driven by a host of internal and external compliance mandates. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is becoming an important industry accreditation for professionals working in IT security. But what does it involve and is it worthwhile? Mark Harris, chief information security officer at ASPACE Solutions, chose to do the intensive seven-day crash course and reflects on the experience. Once installed and running, iHateSpam for Exchange performed quite well, but the installation got off to a rocky start.< 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. There’s been a lot of news on the patching front lately – and not all of it’s bad. Yes, Microsoft has released another list of critical vulnerabilities that leading security gurus say companies would do well to patch against immediately. And sure, some security experts and consumers are miffed at Internet Security Systems for reportedly being selfish with their patches Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes worldwide. As Linux grows in popularity with both users and hackers, Richard Williams contemplates precisely how risky all or nothing security is Employees use email and the internet to do their work every day. So do cybercriminals. Illena Armstrong explores how to manage a company’s indispensable pet, information Today I was thinking about one-hit wonders. The recent power outage was a powerful reminder of the value of business continuity provisions. Ron Mobed reports. As deployment of biometric technology becomes widespread, Illena Armstrong wonders if the interest is truly genuine. Most infosecurity experts have their ideas about what to expect over the course of 2002. Even Mickey Mouse is buying into it. The security of an environment is often won or lost at the architecture level. If you lived your life based on what you read about crime in the daily papers, you wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. Over the last few years, corporate facilities management has started to come of age. It is increasingly disturbing to me that individuals of a certain prominence use their vexing ability to understand complex computations to scare the living heck out of the rest of us humble folks. It may not be illegal. The number of technology pundits decrying the state of Internet security has reached an unbearable level. Network security can be complex.