Expert Calls for New Way to Help Keep Web Secure

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200208/28/eng20020828_102220.shtml

Wednesday, August 28, 2002

Economic methods should be used when addressing the issue of 
information security, which has long been regarded as simply a 
technological issue, said an expert on information technology Tuesday. 

Prof. He Dequan, an academic from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 
made this call when addressing the International Conference on 
Globalization of Information, which ended Tuesday in Beijing. 

He said economic methods and technical means should be used together 
to tighten web information security. 

A "headache" around the world, information security brings the same
challenges to all countries, that is, the cost of maintaining web
security is rapidly increasing, whereas the cost of breaking this
security is on the decline, he said, calling the situation "grim".

Statistics show that up to 20 billion U.S. dollars is spent around the
world on information security each year.

He proposed establishing a system linking responsibility and
compensation and adding an incentive mechanism to encourage an
increase in information security.

It is necessary to integrate the risks in information security with
the economic risks and such issues should be dealt with from an
economic perspective, he added.



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