Stories by: Chris Conrath

Last year the CERT Coordination Center, a repository of information technology vulnerability reporting run by Carnegie Mellon University, posted 3,784 vulnerabilities. Admittedly, it was a slight dip from the 4,129 reported in 2002, but nonetheless it points to a growing trend in software fallibility. In fact, prior to 2000, when 1,090 vulnerabilities were reported, the total never hit 500.

Symantec's semi-annual Internet Security Threat report, released in March, paints a picture of an increasingly threatening Internet. But unlike previous reports, there seems to be little in the way of good news.

Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun Microsystems, likes to dole out his first tenet of IT security, and it’s one that one no one should forget.

How to get board members to think of security as an integral part of the overall corporate strategy.

In the post 9/11 world, the concept of risk assessment was a top priority. But to some extent, corporate complacency has re-surfaced.