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If you are doing business in Europe or considering doing business in Europe, notice that it may soon be illegal to have anything to do with Computer Security in Britain unless you have the Physical Security License which has nothing to do with Computer Security. Off topic Perhaps ... something to pass along to our management, yes. In other words, you will need like a Private Eye License to do ANY Security Work in Britain, which includes secure e-commerce, and security in brick & mortar computer operations. To have anyone on your staff provide computer security for e-commerce with British Subjects, to buy & install any software designed to provide computer security, to sub-contract with anyone to provide computer security, will be in violation of this new British law, unless all the players have the Private Eye License. I wonder if it will be illegal for the computer manufacturers & software publishers to provide any security whatsoever. Retail stores will have to send back all computer security products to the original suppliers for destruction before any of them are found in contempt of the new law. Enterprises will need to disconnect computer security & get out of the e-commerce business, in Britain, unless the Private Eye License is readily available from fly by night diploma mills. The opposition to this bill has got to be incompetent ... does the military know that all their sites (physical & logical) will now be accessible to anyone in the world, or is there also an exemption for the military to have security without a Private Eye License? NATO needs to get out of Britain until this is resolved. I hope this forward from e-com-sec comes through A-Ok regarding http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3BJ4X1VLC&liv e=true&tagid=ZZZC00L1B0C&Collid=ZZZ96PECC0C MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
- Subject: [e-com-sec] IT Security Driving Licence!
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- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:56:00 +0100
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Dear Members Have you got your licence yet? David Spinks Mobile +44(0)7790 495 435 email : david.spinks@eds.com http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3BJ4X1VLC&liv e=true&tagid=ZZZC00L1B0C&Collid=ZZZ96PECC0C CBI in move over IT sector By Jean Eaglesham Published: April 22 2001 20:04GMT | Last Updated: April 22 2001 20:16GMT Industry will this week mount a last-ditch attempt to persuade the government to exempt people working in information technology from a bill regulating the private security industry. The Confederation of British Industry will warn that the "inadvertent" inclusion of IT professionals could damage the industry and hinder the aim of encouraging e-business. "Given the difficulty some businesses already have in recruiting specialised IT professionals, this proposal is in danger of making a difficult situation much worse," it will claim. The bill will make it illegal for "security consultants" - defined as people who give advice on security precautions or engage security operatives - to operate without a licence. This could catch a swathe of people working in IT, doing anything from building firewalls to advising on passwords. "The wording makes no distinction between physical and information security . . . so information security consultants fall into the scope of the bill, just as bouncers and wheelclampers do," the CBI said. It is lobbying MPs to exempt IT professionals from the bill. The Big Five accountants have gained such an exemption on the grounds that they are already regulated. Charles Clarke, the home office minister, has said the information security industry will not be included in the initial licensing regime. Any future inclusion would be preceded by consultation. But the CBI is far from happy with this threat of "licensing through oversight", which would require only secondary legislation. Nigel Hickson, its head of e business, claimed the government had "gone from never having even dreamed of licensing IT security professionals, to proposing it by accident, to essentially challenging the industry to say why the profession shouldn't be licensed". Why not recommend E-Com-Sec to others? It is easy to join and membership is free. Simply send an email to : E-Com-Sec-Subscribe@egroups.com Or for more information contact the Chairman (David Spinks) at david.spinks@dspinks41.freeserve.co.uk Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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