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Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 06:46:58 CST

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Story by Jaikumar Vijayan
NOVEMBER 10, 2003
COMPUTERWORLD

WASHINGTON -- The need to comply with an array of complex data laws
will dominate the security agenda in 2004, according to attendees at
the Computer Security Institute conference here last week.

As in previous years, IT security managers expect to spend
considerable time and resources fending off destructive intrusions and
insider threats.

But the most daunting challenge will be dealing with laws such as the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, California's SB 1386
privacy law and international data integrity and privacy laws, they
said. As a result, the emphasis will be on issues such as policy
management and enforcement, benchmarking against standards, incident
response, forensics and monitoring for insider threats.

"As far as my business and industry in general goes, the single
biggest driver is compliance with all the new data and privacy laws,"
said Michael Kamens, global network security manager at Thermo
Electron Corp., a $2 billion manufacturer of scientific equipment in
Waltham, Mass.

As a publicly traded U.S. manufacturer with multinational operations,
Thermo has to deal with compliance issues ranging from Sarbanes-Oxley
to a Chinese encryption requirement that involves filling out forms in
Mandarin. "It is requiring me to quadruple the effort that I have to
put in on a daily basis to ensure that my company is in compliance and
that I'm safeguarding its good name," Kamens said.

United Government Services LLC, a Milwaukee-based provider of
administrative and consulting services for publicly funded health care
systems, is governed by 400 security requirements issued by the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Meeting all of them will
be a "very large driver" of security efforts next year, said systems
security officer Todd Fitzgerald.

For the most part, the efforts will focus not on technology
improvements but on implementing security policies and management
processes to ensure regulatory compliance. "It's a process that will
involve spending a lot more time working with management and end
users, educating them on what the security risks are," Fitzgerald
said.

Third-party connectivity issues are a priority at St. Jude Medical
Inc. in St. Paul, Minn.

As a $1.6 billion manufacturer of cardiovascular equipment, with 15
facilities worldwide and customers in 120 countries, St. Jude has to
make sure it avoids liability for security breaches involving its
supply chain or business partners, said David Stacey, global IT
security director.

"Regulation is a massive issue, and most organizations are clearly not
ready to deal with the myriad issues and details involved," said Ben
Rothke, a senior security consultant at Thrupoint Inc., a management
services company in New York.

Complying with data regulations will mean turning traditional notions
of the IT security function and its role within organizations upside
down, said Terri Curran, director of research at the Center for
Digital Forensic Studies Ltd. in Auburn Hills, Mich.

"CSOs in the near future are going to have to get more creative about
things like privacy, risk acceptance, forensics, industry-related
regulations, and state and federal laws that are really going to
affect them," Curran said.

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