Dress Your E-Security in Layers
The white paper was written by Tom Arnold, chief technical officer at online security firm CyberSource Corp., for the technology working group of the e-business division of the Software and Information Industry Association, which is the principal trade association of the software code and information content industry.
"Unfortunately, many of today's e-businesses implement the direct opposite of a citadel," Arnold writes. "This can be viewed as an 'eggshell' security model: hard outer shell, soft in the center."
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