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Views on the security industry from The Jericho Forum, an international IT security thought leadership group.

Moving to a safer social place -- together: 07/10/08; Jeroen Willemsen, researcher at Capgemini, a member of the Jericho Forum, discusses the "collaboration-oriented architecture."
Managing trust in our digital world: 06/09/08; In this month's piece, John Arnold, chief security architect at Capgemini UK, discusses the Jericho Forum's concepts of online trust and collaboration-oriented architecture. The Forum is an organization dedicated to encouraging innovations in e-commerce security.
On death and de-perimeterization: 05/02/08; It is with similar reluctance that I have come to accept the demise of the perimeter. It was the king of security controls for decades. Ah, how I depended on it. I knew every ACL like I knew every line of Are You Lonesome Tonight?. But similarly I grieved the loss and moved on. I'm now emotionally and intellectually free to look for new music and new security controls.
Why does a person need so many electronic identities?: 04/11/08; The Jericho Forum explores how to reduce the number of passwords Web users have to handle as part of an identity trust framework.
Data-leak prevention and encryption: Tools that can work together: 03/10/08; Data leakage incidents generally occur when workers are performing everyday tasks, such as sending e-mail that inadvertently contains sensitive information. When this happens, data-leak prevention (DLP) products -- in theory — should be able to flag it for sensitive keywords, fingerprinted documents or data structures, thereby helping to mitigate the risk of data leakage.
The future of network security: 01/31/08; Jericho Forum founder weighs on on future of network security
E-mail and its security discontents: 01/15/08; Jericho Forum member advocates Microsoft, Cisco and others stepping up to help make SMTP-based messaging more secure.
Endpoint security: "Essential security" or "Impossible dream"?: 12/12/07; Jericho Forum executive explores issues of endpoint security in light of holiday giving of smart phones and other devices that inevitably will wind up on corporate networks.
VoIP security industry: Guilty as charged: 11/05/07; A critique of VoIP security, plus 10 nasty questions to ask your VoIP supplier, from the chief information security officer of a global chemicals company and member of the Jericho Forum board.