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Information Security - What does it mean to you? - Part 1

Sometimes the best way of trying to do something or explain what you want to do is to give it some analysis. Let's take a look at "Information Security" for a little bit today and see what that means to practitioners and companies at this point in time (2010). First lets start with a trip in the way back machine - Set the way back to 1999! 1999 - The Internet (although not officially new) is "new" to many people and businesses as corporate America and the world begins a love affair with e-mail, "the web", and all things Inter/net/web. Speed and cool whiz-bang ideas are all the rage, few people care or think to care about the risks associated with allowing everyone to see/access most everything. The only folks who are concerned are mostly government officials, people with law enforcement mentalities/backgrounds, and paranoid sysadmins who have been fighting to preserve their systems for years. In 1999 if you asked "what does Information Security...