Enhancing Security: Can the Internet Help?
The Internet has been used tactically to help after cataclysmic events, but its best future preventive use may be as an educational tool. Given the many Internet security breaches that have occurred this past year, from Code Red to the Nimda virus, many are wondering whether -- and how -- the Internet can help in thwarting future incidents or aiding in rescue and recovery efforts.
In the aftermath of September's cataclysmic events in New York and Washington, the Internet aided mostly through its ability to help find missing persons and to connect others to agencies that were assisting in recovery efforts, such as the Red Cross.
Ryan Russell, incident analyst for Internet security company SecurityFocus, told NewsFactor Network that his group heard many reports of ways the Internet and other communications were employed in the immediate aftermath of the World Trade Center attack.
