In fiction, government agents have tight security standards. In reality things like the blueprints for the U.S. President's helicopter get leaked to a foregin power
The German government aims to counter the alarming rise in computer viruses with a national IT security plan that includes the establishment of a computer emergency response centre. The new plan, unveiled Thursday in Berlin by Interior Minister Otto Schily, comes as Germany and many other industrialized nations struggle to come to grips with attacks on IT systems in both the public and private sectors.
According to the Deloitte & Touche LLP 2003 Global Security Survey, Canadian financial institutions, while big spenders on information security, are failing to implement some of the most basic security products available.
Looking to create a common set of terms and components that could help speed the adoption of security standards in Web services, OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) will announce the formation of the Security Standards Joint Committee (SSJC) on Tuesday, a body that will include members of many of OASIS' existing security committees.