Eckert, C.C.EckertThielmann, H.H.Thielmann2022-03-032022-03-032002https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/202732This paper discusses the impact of IT security in our information society. It also demonstrates that IT security has become a very import economic factor for enterprises. As IT security should be seen as an enabling technology for new application areas like e-business, the paper presents the main problems that must be solved in the near future in order to overcome existing deficiencies. To this end, a tight cooperation between research groups and industrial partners is required to produce EAI (enterprise application integration) solutions that are pragmatic but also strong enough to fulfil security requirements.deIT security requirementinnovationinformation societyknowledge societyEAI assignmententerprise application integrationIT architectureeconomic factorenabling technologyElectronic Businessresearch groupindustrial partnerscooperationriskpragmatic solutionsecurity management006400journal article