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PIN Security and Key Management to Prevent Data Breaches

The financial industry's task in recent months has been to focus on cleaning up from breach aftermaths and scripting customer service and media responses to consumers and reporters alike. Meanwhile, the criminal elements focus on identifying and exploiting additional weaknesses that range from compromising PCI compliant merchants to accessing authorization...

Tags: Payment, Financial, Fair Isaac, Financial Industry, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Security, Viruses And Worms, Finance

White papers 2009-01-01

Phishing-based breach of salesforce.com customer data is more evidence of industry's need to act on spam. Now.

Phishing-based breach of salesforce.com customer data is more evidence of industry's need to act on spam. Now.Must: MandateCouldn't agree with you more:[i][b]"Another issue? Although they're physically possible with many e-mail systems, encryption and digital signing of e-mail — two measures that can also play a role in eliminating spam (and...

Tags: CRM, CRM software, customer data, e-mail, financial industry, phishing, Salesforce.com Inc., spam

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

Survey: ID theft hard to shake off

Survey: ID theft hard to shake offIt's time for the internet to grow up.Plain and simple, the police simply do not care about a $4000 identity theft. Oh sure they care, but in the grand scheme of what they deal with it's way, way down on the list.It's a...

Tags: financial industry, identity theft, survey

Discussion threads 2005-07-26

Message Management in Financial Services

The Financial industry has been faced with the challenges of ensuring preparation to deal with e-discovery demands, various SEC and other regulatory mandates for access into information. However, somewhat lost in this rush to meet the demands of the courts has been a rationalization of the infrastructure and the collective...

Tags: Financial Service, Computer Associates International Inc., Financial Industry, Backups, Disaster Recovery, Financial Planning, Storage Management, Financial Services, Data Management, Finance, Storage, Hardware

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U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%

Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...

Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, FDR, Common-sense, unemployment rate, New Deal, Obama, Reagan

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Best Practices for Translating Customer Satisfaction into Revenue

Today's support organisations are focused on two top-level metrics: financial results and customer satisfaction. For most, it's easy to track financial performance, but customer satisfaction is akin to speaking a foreign language. How do you quantify customer satisfaction? Download the Best Practices...

Tags: Revenue, Customer Satisfaction, Best Practice, Product Marketing, Marketing

White papers 2009-11-06

SOMESSO: social computing meets financial services

Next Monday and Tuesday I will be attending SOMESSO in Zurich. This is an event that covers the intersection between the financial services industry and social computing. According to the blurbs: Day 1 is reserved for corporate workshops for Finance and Banking professionals Finance Masterclass on the...

Tags: Financial Service, Social Computing, Fidor, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-30

Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant

Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...

Tags: Quadrant, Analyst, Vendor, Gartner Inc., Vinnie, MQ, Blogging, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-20

HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)

HP CEO Mark Hurd is big on cloud computing, but acknowledges its limits. For instance, HP "wouldn't put anything material in nature outside the firewall." The message: The cloud has its place, but there's a vast difference between private and public computing. [caption id="attachment_26254" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Credit:...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Attack, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Large Commerce Icons 2009.3 (Windows)

Large Commerce Icons allow Web designers and application developers produce professional-looking products for accountants and bookkeepers, the financial industry, commercial and business applications. With more than 120 instantly available, royalty-free icons and the maximum size of 512x512 pixels, the Large Commerce Icons set is a sure hit. The set of...

Tags: Financial, Microsoft Windows, Image, Icon, Aha-soft, Large Commerce Icons, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2009-10-18

The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

A different take"Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven?t we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and the phoney mortgage miasma?"What lesson did you learn? Did these markets fail or did government intervention in market operations corrupted them? Why are tax...

Tags: Inconvenient Truth

Discussion threads 2009-10-17

Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage for the final keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today - an afternoon session that followed lunch and got off to a rough start when Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan who was scheduled to speak after Ellison came on stage first and spent 45 minutes...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Ellison, Fusion, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Intel is ready for your fourth quarter business: Will you show up?

Intel spent a lot of time talking about inventories on its fiscal third quarter conference call. The industry is stocking up on Intel chips ahead of server refreshes and the launch of Windows 7. The nagging worry for many analysts: Will businesses and consumers show up to drive the upgrade...

Tags: PC, Inventory, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-14

TechGuard keeps spam and botnets at bay with one-click, enterprise-level security for SMBs, SOHOs

One of the most difficult things for a small or medium business to do is set up a security scheme that's effective, affordable and intelligible to the average employee. Chesterfield, Mo. and Baltimore, Md.-based TechGuard is attempting to address that problem by bringing its enterprise and government-level...

Tags: Security, Firewall, Network, SOHO, Small And Medium Business, TechGuard, SM, Smb/Sme, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Perot Systems acquires BearingPoint's China consulting unit

Perot Systems, set to be acquired by Dell, said it is acquiring BearingPoint's China consulting unit out of bankruptcy. BearingPoint, which is currently in bankruptcy, has a China consulting unit that was formed in 2001 statement. BearingPoint China Consulting specializes in the energy, automotive, insurance and financial...

Tags: China, Perot Systems Corp., Consulting, BearingPoint Inc., Consulting Unit, BearingPoint China Consulting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-12

DOJ probes IBM's mainframe business

The Department of Justice is looking into IBM's mainframe business for anticompetitive behavior. According to a bevy of reports, the DOJ is requesting information from IBM's smaller rivals. The Computer and Communications Industry Association has been stumping for a probe of IBM's mainframe practices. ...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Justice, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-08

FTC targets bloggers for disclosure about perks, freebies

The Federal Trade Commission wants me - the blogger - to inform you - the reader - about any financial ties I might have with the companies or the products I write about, just to make sure there's no conflict of interest there. That's fine. I have...

Tags: FTC, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-05

U.S. Internet ad revenue: Down 5.3 percent; Search rules

U.S. Internet advertising revenue checked in at $10.9 billion for the first six months of 2009, down 5.3 percent from a year ago, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. As usual, search and display advertising dominated the standings. Search advertising totaled $5.1 billion for the...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Open Solutions Alliance acquired by Europeans

Merger is Good for OPen SourceAwareness of the value of open source continues to spread horizontally across industries, including financial, telecom, healthcare, media and the software development industry itself. As open source use and mainstream adoption progresses, a natural evolution could be the development of a channel for business-oriented...

Tags: alliance, open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Data governance and IBM System z - Your key to business optimization

The pressure's on and it's staying on. How well you manage your data and deliver it can make the difference between business success or failure. The usage, sharing and processing of electronic data continues to rapidly increase, yet many corporations still complain about being data rich but information poor....

Tags: Webcast, Optimization, IBM Corp., Data Governance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

Webcasts 2009-09-29