Business risks weak e-security

What risks does weak e-security pose for businesses and how can they act to minimise these risks? Electronic commerce and information securities are growing areas of concern to user communities. New applications, new users, and faster connections have spurred the Internet to become an important medium for communication, information dissemination, and commerce. Nevertheless, planned and current security policy regarding the Internet is not well developed. In its absence entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, technologists, and other nations …

…to be dealt with now concerns the security infrastructure which will be the basis of the new marketplace and the Information Age. An infrastructure that is full of holes, plagued by fraud, rife with spies, and lurching upon a single leg for lack of interoperability are the consequences of a short-sighted policy. Issues related to information security and the economic understanding through which the infrastructure is developed are of pivotal importance to this nation's future.