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Internet Security Systems Chairman, CEO and President Tom Noonan says customers increasingly are looking for security platforms that do two basic things: Let the good guys in and keep the bad guys out. He spoke with Network World's Editor in Chief John Dix and News Editor Bob Brown. Here is an edited transcript of Noonan's thoughts on a host of topics.

Are your computers tough enough? It was a sultry Australia Day long weekend in Sydney. A power surge caused the air conditioning in a new computer room to fail. The inside air temperature rapidly headed towards 80°C. One by one the Wintel fleet began to fall as the new floor tiles warped under the heat. The squadron of switches then went down as an infernal heat strikes the data centre. Finally, the last line of defence - the uninterruptible power supplies - were damaged beyond repair. Amid the chaos there is only one survivor - the mighty iSeries which came out of the chaos unscathed.

Good project management isn't enough; CIOs need a worst-case contingency plan for the business.

Microsoft is working on restructuring its identity management platform, adding services directly into the operating system with an eye toward lessening users' current integration chores.

Are you on board with enterprise risk management? You had better be. It's the future of how businesses will be run.

German business software vendor SAP is offering customers a new service to ensure the security of SAP systems, the company said Wednesday.

A three-dimensional view of risk lets organizations aggressively identify sources of IT-business misalignment and ruthlessly move to eliminate them

Last year the CERT Coordination Center, a repository of information technology vulnerability reporting run by Carnegie Mellon University, posted 3,784 vulnerabilities. Admittedly, it was a slight dip from the 4,129 reported in 2002, but nonetheless it points to a growing trend in software fallibility. In fact, prior to 2000, when 1,090 vulnerabilities were reported, the total never hit 500.

There's a common thread that runs through the 1984 Bhopal chemical factory disaster, the rogue trading of Nick Leeson a year later, the collapses of Ansett in 2001 and HIH in 2002, and the mass recall that recently engulfed Pan Pharmaceuticals.