The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) calls for a fresh approach to protect credit card details from Internet crackers. According to the SIIA, many businesses today implement an 'eggshell' security model: hard on the outside and soft in the centre. . . .
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) calls for a fresh approach to protect credit card details from Internet crackers. According to the SIIA, many businesses today implement an 'eggshell' security model: hard on the outside and soft in the centre. The problem is that there is often little or nothing to prevent hackers from accessing sensitive customer records - once they breach firewall defences.

A technology working group of the SIIA's ebusiness division has come up with an concept called the Electronic Citadel. Sensitive data is encrypted so that it can be validated at any time in the future but the original information may only be recovered during a defined period of time. This is described as the final barrier to protect sensitive data when other defences have been breached.

Many of the ideas in the approach are taken from the builders of military fortifications in the 1800s, the SIAA claims, in a metaphorical flight of fancy.

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