ABSTRACT
The most interesting of bulletin boards are those that are maintained by the various special interest groups that have sprung up on the information highway (IH). Company Analyzer provides public company information including income statement, balance sheet, and ownership information from Disclosure and an S&P estimate on future earnings. While the IH probably has more information nuggets tucked into its hard disks than the New York Public Library, for some strange reason it’s e-mail that seems to have captured everyone’s attention. CompuServe offers numerous other financially oriented services. CompuServers are a “sharing” lot so there’s quite a bit of “free” software. Setting security policies and procedures really means developing a plan for how to deal with computer security. Many organizations are lax in enforcing password assignment and maintenance for users of their mainframes and other in-house servers. Encryption is perhaps the most popular method of security for financial firms using the Internet.
