Facing the Future
It's a new year and I'm looking forward to the months ahead. I'm also pondering the more-distant future--curious about which issues I'll be addressing in this column in the year 2000, when we'll all look back to gauge our successes and failures with our much publicized turn-of-the-century challenges. However, my first New Year's resolution is not to cover Y2K issues. I've always considered this exercise the IT equivalent of dumpster diving--trying to find the gold in other people's trash. Furthermore, this is the year of the big four-O for me and I've promised to spend it proactively. In this column, you'll find my insights into today's business-to-business challenges. CMP Network Computing
ReadMischief, Malfeasance And Misplaced Trust
The toughest security problems have nothing to do with packet sniffing, TCP SYN or the ping of death. Yes, securing your networks and servers is important, but securing against the people who populate that workspace may be even more important. Security is fundamentally about people--those who develop, operate and use your systems. And there are only two types of people--those who have earned your trust and those you haven't caught yet. CMP Network Computing
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