This particular security principle provides an excellent opportunity to mention an another important issue in information security and assurance.

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This has been underway for some time, as we feel our cyber security and information assurance expertise can be of great value to a wide range of companies across many industries.

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What is interesting about this virus is that "it is helping to spread itself, " said Professor Gene Spafford, director at the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

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Stash (Global Senior Vice President for Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Operational Assurance at Talisman Energy).

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Despite the setback, officials from the Department of Commerce and the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, along with security experts from Microsoft, Cisco and other companies, said Thursday that they are making progress on a plan for cooperation and collaboration in the effort to protect the nation's digital infrastructure.

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With the acquisition of Fortify Software, HP will offer a complete, market-leading solution that helps organizations reduce business risk, meet compliance regulations and protect against malicious application attacks by integrating security assurance seamlessly across the application life cycle.

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Microsoft is leveraging the immediacy and urgency of security updates to force customers into paying for Software Assurance.

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The meeting also included representatives from the British National Technical Authority for Information Assurance, the agency that ensures British telecommunications security, and government representatives from Canada, Australia, France and Germany.

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