The scope of electronic commerce crime stretches far beyond the security of a single credit card transaction over the World Wide Web. Potential losses due to computer-based financial fraud are devastating, whether perpetrated by intruders or dishonest employees. Theft of proprietary information, long conducted through the turning of employees, is increasingly performed via hacking. Information warfare attacks on infrastructure targets such as the power grid, the telecommunications public switch networks and the air traffic control system may be only a few keystrokes away. There is an urgent need to educate executive-level management to the range of potential cyber attacks and related information protection initiatives.

With the publication of the Third Edition of the heralded Current and Future Danger: A CSI Primer on Computer Crime and Information Warfare, by editorial director Richard Power, Computer Security Institute provides CEOs, CFOs, CIOs and other corporate leaders with a quick read on an subject of vital importance to those involved in the emerging global economy of the 21st Century. In 38 insightful, entertaining pages, corporate leaders can get up to speed on the threats to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information that is the life's blood of their organizations.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the 38-page Current and Future Danger: A CSI Primer on Computer Crime and Information Warfare, provides up-to-the-minute data on the latest cyber threats, and includes an exhaustive time-line of real-world incidents from 1970 to today and 25 graphs, charts and maps from numerous studies conducted by the CSI, the FBI, the American Society for Industrial Security, the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Ernst and Young, RAND and other organizations.

According to Professor Eugene Spafford of Purdue University's Computers, Operations, Audit, Security, Technology (COAST) Labs, "Current and Future Danger is a singularly useful compendium of statistics, dates, trends, and insights into the problems of information security and computer crime, presented in a manner accessible to CEOs as well as to practitioners."

This invaluable threat briefing for executive-level managers is available from Computer Security Institute for $37 ($25 for CSI members). To order, click here, or call 415-947-6371.

Computer Security Institute is the leading international membership organization dedicated to assisting information security professionals in protecting the information assets of their organizations. Since 1974, CSI has been the world's leading proponent of information security--aggressively advocating the critical importance of protecting information assets. CSI provides a wide variety of publications and educational programs.

For more information on other CSI publications, membership or training please contact CSI at 415-947-6320, fax 415-947-6023, email:rrichardson@cmp.com.