Writing Information Security Policies

Establishing the Type of Virus Protection

There are over a dozen companies offering a variety of solutions to help keep viruses, worms, and Trojan Horses out of your organization’s network. The solutions offered work either on the network stream, on each system, or a combination. There are others that will isolate attachments and mobile code segments onto a system where it will run the attachment to ensure it will not cause problems on the network.

Mobile Code A new entry on management’s Frequently Asked Questions list is “What is mobile code?” The concept of mobile code started when Sun released the Java language and operating environment. The concept is to write a single program that can run anywhere. By making the code mobile, as in downloadable ...