Featured Opinion: Taxes, death and policy

by Marcia J. Wilson, CCSP Staff Writer
April 13, 2004


"Reprinted from MAY 21, 2k3"

“Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes."

Getting a Handle on E-Mail
By Chris Gonsalves
October 13, 2003

Compliance with government regulations and fear of liability are pushing enterprises to pay careful attention to e-mail archiving and management, and vendors are stepping up with new tools to manage such communications.

Scare tactics no longer guarantee security funding
CSOs say they're having to rethink their budgets
Story by Dan Verton
OCTOBER 13, 2003
( COMPUTERWORLD ) - NEW YORK

Chief security officers used to be able to get the funding they wanted for critical IT security projects by using newspaper clippings detailing security failures that cost other companies millions of dollars.

Homeland Chief Mulls SEC Cybersecurity Filings
By Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Publicly traded companies could be required to disclose whether they are doing anything to secure information on their computer systems, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said on Thursday.

Financial sector wrestling with new laws, regulations
Terror, privacy and corporate malfeasance are seen as driving the new laws
Story by Dan Verton

( COMPUTERWORLD ) - NEW YORK -- A recent spate of laws stemming from two concerns -- terrorism and personal privacy -- has many banking institutions scrambling to understand the implications for IT security.

Software Industry Unveils Security Framework
By Caron Carlson
October 9, 2003

WASHINGTON—The CEOs of Entrust Inc., RSA Security Inc., Microsoft Corp. and nine other major software companies Wednesday unveiled a task force to elevate the importance of cyber-security among top executives in the private sector and at government agencies.

Security: A Federal Case

The department of energy has done something unusual for a federal agency. It has become an example of excellent cyber-security practice. It has done this by pressuring Oracle to elevate security in its 9i database product—in the process, taking software out of the shadows of as is licenses and putting it in the spotlight of a government procurement action.

Cybersecurity legislation may go to Congress
By Grant Gross
SEPTEMBER 04, 2003

WASHINGTON -- As the U.S. Congress reconvenes this week after a monthlong break, legislation imposing cybersecurity requirements on private industry, including a proposal that would require public companies to report their cybersecurity efforts, may be on the way.

U.S. authorities urged to raise Web security
Amy Harmon NYT
Monday, September 1, 2003

As America's 156 million Internet users brace for the next round of digital vandalism, some experts say that it is time for the government to bolster the kind of basic sense of stability in cyberspace that societies expect from their critical public resources.