A. Padgett Peterson, Lockheed Martin

"The churning I predicted last year is starting as new security "experts," complete with pointy hats, are coming out of the trees. Many are repaints of Y2K "experts" seeking new homes while others are simply doing a Willie Sutton as the "B" in B2B turns into Billion$.

"Companies that learned from Melissa can be easily identified since they were not a LoveLetter statistic. Part of this mitigation is a new discipline: Crisis Manager. Not a Disaster Recovery Function since the job description is management of a dynamic and evolving event. Crisis Management requires the ability to separate true information from the false and to be able to make the correct decision immediately. Preplanning helps. Often the most important (and hardest) job is to be able to say "no worries, it's already covered" in the midst of a panic."