As an increasing amount of activity takes place across the Firewall and the use of external resources of one sort or another, security continues to be a topic of great interest.

In particular there are challenges in doing online business safely and with authentication of the partner, transaction, etc. The Jericho Forum was set up to establish standards by which enterprises could safely trade online and prove to their auditors that the process and data was well managed and authenticated. More about the Jericho standards and an update for the month are covered in this month’s edition.