TIGHTENING YOUR INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY.(Industry Trend or Event)

By Dr. Rachna Kumar, associate professor of Information Systems, United States International University, San Diego, California

Computer viruses and denial of service attacks this year have shown just how vulnerable information systems are to relatively unsophisticated methods of attack. Any server connected to the Internet makes it and the rest of the enterprise network vulnerable to access from unauthorized and malicious users. Indeed, the probability of the occurrence of security breaches has increased phenomenally over the past few years. A 1999 survey by the Comput