Allan Liska is a security analyst for Blackbird Technologies. His area of specialty is network and Internet security.
In addition, Mr. Liska is a prolific author with articles published in more than half a dozen technical publications. He is also the author of "The Practice of Network Security: Deployment Strategies for Production Environments" (Prentice Hall 2002), and has authored or co-authored several other technical books.
Two things are important to stress. First, nothing was decided in this meeting, and no actions will be taken until the next meeting in 2005. Secondly, and more importantly, as with anything the devil is in the details. Given the vagueness of the documents available, there are few reliable conclusions that can be drawn from the summit...Before any judgments can be made about the effectiveness, or feasibility of the ideas outlined in the Plan of Action more concrete information is needed. The details of these plans are currently unknown to the Internet community at large, and may even be unknown to the members of the WSIS. Based on the information that is available it appears the Plan of Action needs to be thought through a little more thoroughly. more»