The five task forces focused on creating awareness in home computer users and small businesses, establishing a cybersecurity early warning system, making information security part of corporate governance, advocating technical best practices for...
Yet despite early expectations that a network of secure keys would proliferate throughout society, actual progress has petered out. Ever since JK Galbraith published The Affluent Society, we have known that business tends to create products, then...
Jesús Villasante, the head of software technologies at the EC's Information Society and Media Directorate General, said big companies such as HP, IBM and Sun are just using the open source community as subcontractors rather than encouraging the...
All of it is tried and trusted, direct transplants from the West to the East. This is a coordinated and planned transformation of an entire society that can only occur if it is generating sufficient wealth.
ICI's Simmonds said ID cards could be linked to corporate networks to provide trusted authentication: "With the national ID card scheme, we'd love to use that as part of corporate authentication. Toby Stevens, vice chair of the British Computing...
They have research and development programmes, they are putting people through university, they are calculating return on investment and they have better quality assurance. According to Simmonds, computer criminals are in a far more lucrative trade...