In the first installment of "Securing Cyberspace," we asked, "Is it time to rethink our strategy?" The answer was a resounding "yes." In next month's issue, our authors discuss a bevy of innovative ways we can protect our cyber infrastructure, from managing cyber risk through cyber insurance to reengineering the base protocols of TCP/IP. Discover how to write service agreements that can help you achieve effective information security in your organization. Learn why companies must move with all deliberate speed to adopt information security best practices (hint: so government mandates don’t force them to).
"This month we turn from overall strategic considerations to more utilitarian issues, as we go from asking whether we need to do something different to asking what, specifically, we should do."
- Larry Clinton, Guest Editor
Start Rewriting
Current cyber security strategies are like putting Band-Aids on a cancer. Unless we do the R&D necessary to rewrite the core protocols the Internet is based on, such as TCP/IP, we are headed for economic — and possibly physical — disasters.
Get It in Writing
Responsible corporations already have the best possible tool to expand the perimeter of true Internet security, but many are failing to use it. Properly drafted commercial agreements can do more to expand good security practices than any SOX-like legislation.
Next Issue
CRM: The Next Five Years
Guest Editor: Vince Kellen
At the heart of customer relationship management (CRM) is the customer, and knowing the customer is key. Next month you'll learn why it’s vital to determine not just the customer’s propensity to buy but her capacity to buy — and why companies whose CRM systems leverage broader market data and predictive analytics will surpass those that get their CRM functionality out of a box. Discover how surging adoption of consumer-generated media provides unprecedented windows into consumer preferences and real-time behaviors. Find out how open source software may put CRM capability within the reach of more companies than ever before. Will the future of CRM be Oracle and SAP hegemony or the unfiltered business intelligence of the blogosphere? Join us next month to see what’s ahead for CRM.
