"The 'press' in 1791 was not The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. It did not comprise large organizations of private interests, with millions of readers associated with each organization.

Rather, the press then was much like the Internet today. The cost of the printing press was low, the readership was slight, and anyone (within reason) could become a publisher—and in fact an extraordinary number did.

When the Constitution speaks of the rights of the 'press,' the architecture it has in mind is the architecture of the Internet.

Lawrence Lessig
Law Professor, Author and Expert on the U.S. Constitution


More Security in 60 Seconds...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Pamela Peak
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May 15, 2007 (Lake Forest, CA) – Ray Bernard, leading security consultant and author, announces the first anniversary of The Security Minute (www.TheSecurityMinute.com), a free bi-weekly newsletter on key security topics that security managers and stakeholders can read in about 60 seconds.

The Security Minute is not about the security industry, its products, or security news. It centers on security practitioners and stakeholders, and provides key information relating to security planning and decisions.

Bernard said, “The Security Minute is the first newsletter created for all of the people involved in making or approving security decisions, policy, plans or expenditures. That includes corporate decisions about accepting residual risk—the risk that is left over after the security budget has been spent. Who is authorized to approve that? On what do they base their decisions?”

Security stakeholders include senior managers, C-level executives, and board members who are responsible in one way or another for the care of business assets. Before The Security Minute was established, there was no source of practical information about security for non-security executives. Of course, security executives benefit as well.

Bob Hayes, CSO of CXO Media and Executive Director for the CSO Executive Council said, "The Security Minute helps establish the business value of security, which is a definite benefit to CSOs and security managers. Additionally, it provides a good perspective for non-security executives who ultimately have to make the business decisions relating to security planning and security risk acceptance."

“The idea,” said Bernard, “is to bypass the typical overload of security information to ensure that vital security topics and successful security strategies don’t get lost in the general flow of security news and commercial messages.”

Previous topics of The Security Minute include:

• A Security Bill of Rights for Ownership
• Senior Management’s Security Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
• The Security Executive’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
• How to Correctly Evaluate Any Security Measure
• Rate Your Security Program in 90 Seconds
• An Antidote to the Complacency and Panic Security Syndrome

A free subscription provides e-mail delivery of The Security Minute, but the newsletter can also be viewed online without a subscription, for those who prefer to minimize their e mail traffic.

For more information visit www.TheSecurityMinute.com.