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From AT&T's Global Network Operations Center 40 miles west of New York City, CISO Ed Amoroso has as wide a window into the Internet as anyone. With a glance at a two-story wall covered with computer monitors and television screens, Amoroso can tell at any given moment how much e-mail, Web and voice-over-IP traffic is streaming across AT&T's data networks, buzzing its way from business to business, person to person.

E-mail is mission-critical to your business - and its worst security nightmare

Financial services firm KPMG has met with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) and the big four Australian banks to push the adoption of industry-specific business continuity plans.

The promise of love, or at least a chance to find it, is the prime motivator behind a new spate of viruses written especially for mobile phones.

Spam has climbed back up the priority list for IT managers. But this isn't 2002 when spam first began clogging inboxes. Today, IT managers are cynical about product offerings and the vendors providing the so-called solutions.

The "whoops factor" and the "non-deliberate insider" are just two user profiles responsible for the vast majority of global organizations being hit by a virus or worm in the past 12 months.

Australian enterprises are dissatisfied with antispam solutions, claiming there is still plenty of room for improvement when it comes to this particular technology.

Even though the Australian government may have an effective IT security framework, a recent report shows that certain government agencies are not living up to it, highlighting a great concern.

Some believe that Westpac's new anti-keylogging sign in page, is a joke and does not go far enough to ensure security.

While regulatory compliance is the primary driver of corporate information security projects it is a dangerous strategy that could weaken enterprise defenses, according to Ray Wagner, Gartner's information security and privacy research vice president.