A Site to See

Stories about IT security pass from fact to hyperbole all too quickly when vendors or government officials focus on the dramatic rather than the factual elements of an anecdote. How to separate the truthful from the fanciful? Noted IT security guru Mich Kabay, associate professor of information assurance at Norwich University, has created a database of more than 5,000 "interesting or significant events" related to IT security going back to 1995. The events, cataloged both in PDF format and MS Access, are classified using a taxonomy of hundreds of keywords on topics ranging from identity theft to virus hoaxes.

You'll probably find the perfect IT story to illustrate your next presentation. @ Just point your browser to SM Online  to link to the database, this month's A Site to See.