Issue No. 23 · February 11, 2004
Why Don't We Do It in the Road Ahead? —Part 3, Security Enhancement
The key issues to which AEC/FM and plant/process technologists should direct this year's management attention and technology budget can be grouped into three clusters: Infrastructure Realignment; Application Integration; and Security Enhancement. We looked at Infrastructure Realignment in IssueTwentyOne and Application Integration in IssueTwentyTwo. In this and coming issues we explore Security Enhancement, which includes four of the Top Twelve Tech Trends for 2003—Business continuity planning, e-signatures, Identity management and Digital rights management (DRM). In recent months these technologies have begun to assume such importance that each now deserves broader and deeper coverage. Herewith,
and its sub topics: