Fingering biometrics
Ben Rothke, director of security technology implementations at financial services company AXA, put his finger on biometrics when he said it "gets away from the worst aspects of security, users choosing lousy passwords," but doesn"t quite live up to the mar...
TD Ameritrade CIO talks up encryption, storage
Ameritrade completed its acquisition of TD Waterhouse in January to become TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. Just prior to the completion of that acquisition, Ameritrade finished rolling out technology that encrypts all data as it moves from servers to tape back...
New service deletes files on stolen laptops
Everdream has launched a service to delete or encrypt files on stolen PCs and laptops. But the service depends utterly on the thief being naive enough to connect the stolen PC/laptop to the Internet without wiping the existing software on the hard drive fi...
Data exposure: Counties across the U.S. posting sensitive info online
APRIL 12, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Broward County, Fla., Maricopa County, Ariz., Fort Bend County, Texas. Three counties separated by hundreds of miles with something in common: They’re among potentially hundreds of counties in several states that i...
An End To Data Anarchy
The handling of customer data is one of the thorniest business issues of the 21st century. If companies aren"t struggling to determine which versions of their customer records are accurate and up to date, they"re scrambling to do damage control in the wake...
Data theft prompts firm to lock down, protect network
With data theft and network intrusions continuing to flourish, network security is no longer a perimeter game. Just ask Jeff Schmitt, network administrator at Troy, Mich.-based Motor Information Systems, a reseller of automotive data. "We sell data" he ...
HP: Enterprises struggling with privacy management
Enterprises are under increasing pressure to safeguard the privacy and security of personal data, but the complexity of the task is making it difficult to meet higher expectations, an HP project manager said Tuesday.