Chapter 1. Security by Default

Topics in This Chapter

• Business Challenges Around Security

• What Are the Weakest Links?

• The Impact of Application Security

• The Four W’s

• Strategies for Building Robust Security

• Proactive and Reactive Security

• The Importance of Security Compliance

• The Importance of Identity Management

• Secure Personal Identification

• The Importance of Java Technology

• Making Security a “Business Enabler”

In today’s world, everyone relies on information from a variety of sources and tends to depend on its accuracy and reliability in making their own business decisions. The rapid adoption of computing systems and network technologies in critical businesses and industry sectors has brought newer threats and risks such as service interruptions, unauthorized access, stealing and altering of information, impersonation, the spreading of viruses, and so on. This heightens the importance of security and presents every business and organization with the ethical and legal responsibility to properly secure its information by using appropriate measures and processes. Enforcing security at all levels ensures that information is processed, stored, or transmitted with reliability and that it is available to all authorized entities.