Internet infrastructure experts yesterday lent their support to White House adviser Richard Clarke's recommendations that companies should make securing ubiquitous internet protocols a priority, but said cost and red tape is slowing down deployment, writes Kevin Murphy.

Article which touches on some of the good points of Bush's Cybersecurity strategy:

• Securing BGP
• Securing DNS
  

James Lewis was one of the two CSISers I quoted in that article as wanting more laws. He had said: "Cybersecurity is too tough a problem for a solely voluntary approach to fix. Companies will only change their behavior when there are both market forces and legislation that cover security failures. Until the U.S. has more than just voluntary solutions, we'll continue to see slow progress in improving cybersecurity."

Good analysis of Bush's Cybersecurity strategy from the Center for Strategic & International Studies.

Microsoft’s XML extensions form the basis for the Passport single sign-on service but are fundamentally inconsistent with SGML principles. In contrast, Plan 9’s factotum authentication management offers an elegant and effective open source alternative

Good article from LinuxWorld on the battle over the future of Single Sign On.