ABSTRACT
The computing world has evolved from a centralized environment consisting of single mainframes and multiple dumb terminals to today’s distributed client/server networking environment. Given this global change in information systems (IS), networking industry experts around the world agree that the management of information systems — particularly network security — is an increasingly difficult task for today’s executives. IS managers live with the fear that a great financial loss due to an unforeseen network security breach will be blamed solely on the IS team.
