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Protecting Customer Data at the Browser Level
Wednesday, 2 June 2004 17:47 ESTCan protecting information at the browser level stem identity theft? The Federal Trade Commission says identity theft is the fastest-growing crime, costing businesses $47.6 billion last year and affecting one in eight Americans. When it comes to safeguarding customers’ information, or corporate secrets, companies are looking for any help they can get. Yet despite the growing problem, “until now, most companies haven’t done enough to protect their customer data, whether the employees accessing the data are located in-house or outsourced to a third party,” notes Don Bell, president of MailboxSecurity, an application-security provider of Authentica and OmniTrust Security Systems products.
“Most organizations do deploy encryption, virtual private [networks], and firewall security measures, but you still have the human factor. While the vast majority of workers are honest, it only takes one to ruin a customer financially.”
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Tribal thinking in todays IT
George Santayana once famously observed; Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.. But when it comes to IT security, a better way of thinking might be; those who fail to understand the impact of the past on their thinking may find themselves somewhat exposed
You cant manage what you cant see!
Security threats have grown more menacing with the appearance of the likes of Sober, Mytob, and Bagle. Along with the newer trends of spyware, phishing and key logging the implications of ineffective information security have become potentially debilitating to business operations and indeed strategy.
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Press Releases
Parasoft Jtest Wins Best Application Test Tool as part of InfoWorld's Annual Technology of the Year Awards
Akonix Security Center Publishes IM Threat Watch for December 2005
Tool for camouflaging threats in WMFs discovered, informs Panda Software
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