IT SECURITY IN A CHANGING WORLD

As businesses continue to automate their activities and establish electronic links with trading partners the IT security problem becomes both more important to solve and more difficult to deal with. Virtually all companies have inadequacies in their present IT security arrangement, and suffer growing losses as a result. There is much that individual companies can, and should, do to eliminate these inadequacies, but some aspects of the problem are beyond the capacity of an individual company to solve. New initiatives, such as Coopers &Lybrand′s European Security Forum, have been established to address these issues.