IBM, DEC, British Telecommunications Plc, GPT Data Systems, Istel Failsafe Ltd, Plessey Crypto, British Airways Plc, Asea Brown Boveri AG, Fiat SpA, Ford of Europe Ltd and Volvo AB are among 28 founder members each paying a UKP12,500 a year to the European Security Forum, organised by Coopers & Lybrand to advise on practice and come up with new solutions to all the hazards from without and within that assail corporate computers and the networks that interconnect them.