"Since it is private industry that owns and operates the vast majority of what constitutes the Internet, it is therefore industry's responsibility to demonstrate leadership in the fight to secure cyberspace."
"Since it is private industry that owns and operates the vast majority of what constitutes the Internet, it is therefore industry's responsibility to demonstrate leadership in the fight to secure cyberspace."
Viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, adware, spyware, keystroke tracking tools, spoofing, snooping, sniffers -- these are some of the most popular examples of malicious code and techniques that modern organizations find themselves fighting. Couple this seemingly unabated tide of new releases and new forms of harmful software with human threats like crackers, thieves, industrial espionage contractors, and your own disgruntled or ill-intentioned employees, and what do you get? You get a complex cocktail of potential security headaches. How big a headache?
"I believe that we're starting to see a trend away from the serial, and often bureaucratic, methods that pervade many data groups toward an evolutionary/agile approach that reflects modern software development practices."
Some debate can be had about the exact birth date of the open source software movement. Was it when computer enthusiasts and scientists began to exchange code? Was it at the time of the birth of the Internet when the infrastructure was made available to enable further collaboration?
"Alas, an embarrassingly large percentage of IT projects continue to fail -- and now that so many of them involve outsourcing contracts between vendors and customers who may be located on opposite sides of the world, the failures are even more likely to result in expensive litigation."
- Ed Yourdon, Guest Editor