Security in a Web 2.0+ World (PDF)

Discover how technology is affecting your business, and why
typical security mechanisms are failing to address the issue of
risk and trust.

Security for a Web 2.0+ World looks at the perplexing issues of
cyber security, and will be of interest to those who need to know
how to make effective security policy decisions to engineers who
design ICT systems - a guide to information security and
standards in the Web 2.0+ era. It provides an understanding of IT
security in the converged world of communications technology based
on the Internet Protocol.

Many companies are currently applying security models following
legacy policies or ad-hoc solutions. A series of new security
standards (ISO/ITU) allow security professionals to talk a common
language. By applying a common standard, security vendors are able
to create products and services that meet the challenging security
demands of technology further diffused from the central control of
the local area network. Companies are able to prove and show the
level of maturity of their security solutions based on their proven
compliance of the recommendations defined by the standard.

Carlos Solari and his team present much needed information and a
broader view on why and how to use and deploy standards. They set
the stage for a standards-based approach to design in security,
driven by various factors that include securing complex
information-communications systems, the need to drive security in
product development, the need to better apply security funds to get
a better return on investment.

Security applied after complex systems are deployed is at best a
patchwork fix. Concerned with what can be done now using the
technologies and methods at our disposal, the authors set in place
the idea that security can be designed in to the complex
networks that exist now and for those in the near future. Web 2.0
is the next great promise of ICT - we still have the chance
to design in a more secure path.

Time is of the essence -
prevent-detect-respond!