The Growing Imperative Need for Effective Information Security Governance

With monotonous regularity, headlines announce ever more spectacular failures of information security and mounting losses. The succession of corporate debacles and dramatic control failures in recent years underscores the necessity for information security to be tightly integrated into the fabric of every organization. The protection of an organization's most valuable asset information can no longer be relegated to low-level technical personnel, but must be considered an essential element of corporate governance that...

Terminal Immortality More than a decade earlier, in a secret, privately funded lab in Texas, old rats got young again. Young and healthy. Soon, the labs aged benefactor did as well and celebrated the triumph with his small staff of researchers. But they had solved the riddle of aging in a world incapable of coping with lesser discoveries and the implications were terrifying. Who would live? Who would not? Who would decide? What price would men pay to regain their youth? Burgeoning populations and dwindling resources made the prospect of indefinite lifetimes for billions untenable. The very...