Electronic forgery menaces humanity

Electronic forgery menaces humanity
John Leyden, The Register 2005-06-24

Electronic forgery is becoming a greater risk as more company information is stored electronically. But many organisations are ignoring the issue.

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Electronic forgery menaces humanity 2005-06-24
Todd Knarr

And amazingly, we've had ways of preventing this forgery for decades. PGP has had ways of distributing and validating public keys and signing documents since the first time I saw it, and with MIME we have standard ways of packaging signatures up along with arbitrary binary documents. When both creat...

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Solved problem, mgt to blame yet again 2005-06-27
Roger (1 replies)

The sad thing here is that this is basically a solved problem, and the solution is very inexpensive to implement. It is, of course, digital signatures and PKI, both available for free for more than a decade. True, implementing a completely general PKI is hard work, but it is much easier for a corpor...

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Re: Solved problem, mgt to blame yet again 2005-06-28
John A Blackley (1 replies)

This is wonderful - we throw our hands up and say, "If only 'management'............." and it's no answer at all.

For decades (literally) I've listened to so-called information security professionals sketch 'solutions' to the problems of the electronic information age and then step back with a ru...

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Re: Re: Solved problem, mgt to blame yet again 2005-06-28
Todd Knarr

The problem is that security doesn't provide any benefits (in terms of producing measurable revenues). It only mitigates costs. What happens to that nice clear cost/benefit analysis is that management reads it and goes "We're OK on the cost part, but benefits? We haven't had a recorded security inci...

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