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A long while ago I had a business card identity that branded me as a Security Export Consultant. As organizations continue to invest in dedicated information security resources, it is imperative that they also develop the capability to respond to security incidents. When you think of computer crime, you immediately think of Internet fraud, hacking, viruses or other external threats to an organization. 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. 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. Basic network security issues have changed very little over the past decade. Woody Allen, that famous web services guru and comedian on the side, once described James Joyce as “the most incomprehensible and hence the finest poet of his time.” According to a report by Jupiter Research (July 2001 Jupiter Executive Survey), 49.5 per cent of CIOs considered the sensitivity of their company's data as 'low.’ This is the second part of a two-part article. The first part discussed security tools used to protect data integrity and the related business processes within an organization: (www.scmagazine.com/scmagazine/sc-online/2002/article/48/article.html). What is in essence a framework for designing, developing and building a new generation of applications around web standards and protocols, web services promises to make it far easier to integrate applications across disparate hardware and software platforms - a constant gripe with existing technology. Backed by all of the major IT vendors (Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle, etc.), web services certainly will not suffer from a lack of effort or exposure, but will it take off and what are the issues? It may not be illegal. While it makes perfect sense that the United States FBI needs a comprehensive security strategy, many companies and organizations initially did not see the need for securing their intellectual assets. In the traditional world, the individual moves through differing process and policy environments in which varying policies govern their interactions with others. They may not have as many employees, generate the same size revenues or have the million-plus customer base of the large enterprises, but when it comes to Internet security, small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) face exactly the same risks as larger organizations when they incorporate e-business and e-commerce into their traditional business models. Laws giving digital signatures legal legitimacy have been enacted around the world. The events of September 11 have made security a national priority in the USA. Various iterations of the Nimda virus have slowed its propagation around the world after causing havoc on resource-constrained IT organizations. 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. This has been a very good year - especially for the hackers. Ben Rothke wonders if we have learned anything from the experience Creating a security policy may be hard, says Illena Armstrong, but making sure that users comply is always the biggest problem