* Urs Gattiker’s “Information Security This Week” newsletter
I’ve been friends with Professor Urs Gattiker for a decade and have reviewed his information security dictionary in a previous column. Today I’d like to introduce readers to Gattiker’s valuable information security weekly newsletter, logically called “Information Security This Week.”
This free newsletter provides summaries and pointers to a few selected articles or resources of interest. For example, the May 15 issue includes the following references:
* 10 May 2005 Regulation that Matters – W18 – European Union – Privacy and E-Commerce Directive
* 12 May 2005 Recommended Reading – EFF – Digital Rights Management (DRM) – Why it gets an F Grade for Fail
* 13 May 2005 Ambient Intelligence – Pervasive Computing – Security Issues – RFID
* 15 May 2005 W19 – TOOL – Building Role-Based Access Control Systems (RBAC)
* 15 May 2005 EICAR 2005 – Fighting Malware – Cryptography can Make Detection Tougher or Even IMPOSSIBLE
The abstracts range from over 500 words down to around 150; they include URLs for further reading. For readers interested in European and international perspectives, most issues include references to issues involving countries other than the U.S. Especially for people in organizations with international components, such international perspectives are a refreshing change from the relatively insular approach common to most of our news media.
Gattiker also manages the WebUrb: https://weburb.org/main/sitemap.html
There you can find a variety of resources, such as news from the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR), an archive of scholarly papers, innovation workshops, and security resources. One useful note: When you go to a “SubUrb” you will find most of the links on the left side of the page in the frame rather than in the central panel.
To subscribe to “Security News This Week,” send a message from your desired receiving address to mailto:security-subscribe@News.WebUrb.dk
