What is interesting about this virus is that "it is helping to spread itself, " said Professor Gene Spafford, director at the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

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This particular security principle provides an excellent opportunity to mention an another important issue in information security and assurance.

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This has been underway for some time, as we feel our cyber security and information assurance expertise can be of great value to a wide range of companies across many industries.

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The meeting also included representatives from the British National Technical Authority for Information Assurance, the agency that ensures British telecommunications security, and government representatives from Canada, Australia, France and Germany.

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