Dan Verton

Enterprise security has never before figured so prominently or taken its place so swiftly in the psyche of today's IT leader. How can it not be top of mind? In 2001, the number of security incidents reported doubled from the previous year to more than 40,000, malicious worms rampaged through corporate networks and threatened to strangle e-commerce, and then, on Sept. 11, a horrific act of terrorism tore down preconceived notions about enterprise security.

This year, the book on enterprise security gets rewritten. Some of the U.S.

The pending appointment by President Bush of Microsoft Corp.'s chief security officer Howard Schmidt to the number two position at the U.S. government's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board raises an important question about the homeland security effort: Should private-sector experts be heading for the White House or frontline security agencies?

The number of required security patches and updates to security products during the past 12 months has so overwhelmed IT managers at most companies that the process now places network security at greater risk, a new study concludes.

The number of required security patches and updates to security products during the past 12 months has so overwhelmed IT managers at most companies that the process now places network security at greater risk, a new study concludes.

The U.S. Army has overhauled its Web presence with a new intranet portal designed to provide 1.2 million personnel with a one-stop shop for Army information.

U.S. fighter pilots and the military's Special Forces are preparing for missions in Afghanistan and elsewhere using advanced visualization technologies that provide amazingly accurate virtual models of buildings, cities and terrain.

The Bush administration's plan to build a multibillion-dollar secure government intranet to protect critical federal systems from security problems associated with the Internet may be flawed, critics contend.