IMPACT Launched to Wage War on Cyber Terrorism

IMPACT, acronym for International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Terrorism, is a nonprofit international body formed to fight the holy war against cyber terrorism. It aims to unify various governments, private-sector organizations and the academic world to combine forces in this enterprise. Abdullah Badawi, the honorable Prime Minister of Malaysia, has sanctioned a whopping sum of USD 13 million to start this body.

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Data Security Management in Tomorrow’s context

With the evolution of the World Wide Web came the corresponding growth in cyber and online threats to information systems security which can no longer be addressed with traditional methods. The increase of sophisticated viruses, worms, and hackers have changed and challenged the perspective of how the cyber landscape should be governed. This was the message that was put across by Oracle when it held its security symposium in July of 2008. During the symposium, keynote speakers brought the question to the audience to challenge them on the traditional thinking of information management and, especially, protection.

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