The problem is exacerbated by high employee turnover, adds Paul Raines, vice president of information asset protection at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The key to surviving these increasingly complex attacks will be creating security awareness campaigns. Keep these policies simple, follow up with refreshers and use media coverage of security events to keep the issue on users' minds, adds Michele Guel, a security engineer at Cisco Systems Inc. in San Jose. For this reason, desktop firewall systems from vendors like Zone Labs Inc., Network Ice Corp., Network-1 Security Solutions Inc. and Symantec will be big sellers.
Wireless devices are more problematic than any other type of mobile equipment.
This past year, one Trojan horse and two virus threats against PalmPilots and cell phones, along with a report of a virus found in a German cellular network, were published, although none proved serious. Calif. The second half of the transaction travels from the WAP server to the Web with Secure Sockets Layer browser encryption. Smart cards and biometric access devices will lead the way. Our organization is looking closely at mechanisms for two-factor authentication. He and others predict that interoperability will still be a problem this year and beyond.