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Four months after the nightmare of Sept. 11, businesses around the world appear to be playing a game of catch-up in terms of security and disaster recovery plans. Norman Inkster is someone who has a thing or two to say about the subject. He's the president of KPMG Investigation and Security, as well as a former Commissioner of the RCMP and past president of France-based Interpol, an international law enforcement organization. At the recently held E-Content Institute seminar in Toronto, Inkster held a keynote presentation entitled "E-Content, Security and Vulnerability: info-structures in an age of terrorism," which touched on several points varying from business resumption planning to disaster recovery. Network World Canada staff writer Carly Suppa sat down with Inkster to discuss network security and where it fits in the minds of corporate leaders.
NWC: What is the real threat to the average Canadian corporate network in terms of terrorism?
Inkster: If you are asking the question in the context of terrorism and in the context of Canada, I don't see Canada being the likely target of terrorism. If it was, it would be unlikely that terrorists would see our corporate structure as being a target of preference simply because of the relative magnitude of Canada as compared to the United States. If they were going to make a statement, they would not get a great bang for their buck -...