You might want to look at "Secrets and Lies : Digital Security in a Networked World" By Bruce Schneier.
Even though it does not specificaly cover the risks of forwarding email from a corporate account to a personal account such as AOL or Yahoo, it does cover how a lot of the need to mantain security for communications. It sounds like you are facing a classic problem I have seen with many managers, ignorance to security and how it can affect there ability to keep there jobs. > Does anybody know a good internet source of actual > security related real > life cases? I know that it's a risk to forward > corporate mail to > internet e-mail account like AOL or gmx. But I need > a case like "in > january 2001 the aol accounts of xyz got cracked and > a lot of > confidential data was published by some hackers on > the internet" to > convince a manager who thinks the risk is just > theoretical and nothing > ever happened. I would like to have such stories for > different threats > (no remote access via modem, no weak passwords, no > unenecrypted data on > laptops,...). In my opinion the stories in the book > "Tangled Web" are > just a starting point (some of them are not easy > enough for managers). > > -- > <- ullmic6 -> > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
