Britain ending do-it-yourself Professional Computer Security -- MIDRANGE-L

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

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MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)

Subject: [e-com-sec] IT Security Driving Licence!
From: "Spinks, David C" <david.spinks@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:56:00 +0100
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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". 




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