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Banks must exploit synergies between anti-fraud and anti-money laundering
According to new Datamonitor research, the current economic crisis is only serving to exacerbate existing technology issues. This threatens to lead to a new wave of financial mis-statements, account manipulations or even internal fraud. Despite squeezed budgets, banks must streamline their prevention technologies, as reduced vigilance could create new openings for money launderers and fraudsters.
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CBR Thought Leaders: IT in a Cold Climate
Is paring IT investment back to the bone the best strategy for surviving the downturn? Dr Richard Williams argues the case against.
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Towards a common key management standard: making encryption work
Enterprises are increasingly aware of the need to implement encryption in order to protect their information assets, but this has emphasized the challenges around interoperability and effective key lifecycle management. As a result, a group of storage and security vendors has announced the key management interoperability protocol, which is intended to standardize key management interfaces.
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The Change We Need?
The US is a power-house of IT innovation. But what will be Obama’s impact on science and technology, and how did ‘Web 2.0’ help him win the election?
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IT risk management: needs to be treated as a corporate issue
Organizations that treat IT risk management as a technology issue rather than a corporate one will leave themselves exposed to numerous problems that could threaten the health of their entire business. While technology support will be required, IT risk management is just as much an organizational issue that relies on putting the right people in the right roles with the necessary guidance.
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Palo Alto Networks to offer life after UTM
Palo Alto Networks is expanding into Europe with a product which acts as a multi-function security appliance designed to overcome the performance limitations of unified threat management devices. Although UTM boxes offer the convenience of an all-in-one device, the performance issue can be a distinct shortcoming. Thus Palo Alto's "next-gen firewalls" have the potential to take some market share.
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Symantec looks to guarantee its growth by investing in security SaaS
As growth has slowed in the security software and appliance market, the security SaaS sector has become more compelling. Symantec has staked a claim for early leadership by acquiring MessageLabs, which has been a key success story in security services. This move into managed services will enable Symantec to sustain growth, but potentially poses a risk to its other channels and modes of delivery.
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Is there a future for biometrics in retail?
Despite the collapse of the US's largest biometrics payment company earlier this year, some commentators are still predicting a rosy future for the technology. However, current credit and debit card readers remain cheap and effective. Unless banks push biometrics on to retailers due to fraud concerns, near field communication technologies are more likely to be adopted as alternative payment types.
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Dealing with the 2.0 enterprise
The Secure Enterprise 2.0 Forum has been launched to promote the secure use of Web 2.0 in business environments. The start point for addressing 2.0 enterprise issues must involve gaining a proper understanding of what Web 2.0 tools and products are present in the enterprise, and what impact they may have on existing IT rules and usage policies.
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Public sector to maintain focus on information security
IT in the public sector has all too frequently been viewed as a potential area for cost cutting, with the UK's HM Revenue and Customs data loss towards the end of 2007 highlighting the problems that this can present. Given the attention placed on information security throughout last year, public sector organizations will need to maintain a focus upon such issues moving forward.
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