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Four Important Trends Shaping the Future of Credit Cards

As the economy slowly recovers, credit card issuers are still struggling. To stay afloat, many have undertaken cost reduction programs, but this approach is not a long-term strategy for success. Only by investing in the future, organizations can begin building their foundations for growth. But understanding where...

The Shortcut Guide to Eliminating Insecure and Unreliable File Transfer Methods

Transferring files often appears to be a simple task that is easily scripted. As a result, many organizations are littered with quickly written, insecure and difficult to maintain file transfer scripts. In The Shortcut Guide to Eliminating Insecure and Unreliable File Transfer Methods, author Dan Sullivan outlines the...

Securing Internet File Transfers

Private data - so heavily protected on the corporate network - is instantly exposed to risk and attack once it sails onto the public Internet. Yet the business drivers that demand security within the corporate network - compliance with regulations, preservation of customer privacy, and protection of intellectual...

Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile SDK

For many, the lack of security on mobile devices is a major inhibitor to their adoption of mobile banking. As banks look to address these issues and capitalize on the opportunities of the mobile environment, they are also challenged by the need to bolster customer confidence in online banking. With Entrust's...

US Business Banking Cybercrime Wave: Is "Commercially Reasonable" Reasonable?

This TowerGroup Research Note addresses the growing issue of targeted attacks by cybercriminals on business banking customers. As the sophistication of cybercriminal organizations has developed, they have begun attacking businesses with techniques such as phishing and "man in the middle" Trojan horses, techniques...

Using Mobile-Based Security to Combat New Fraud Threats

The proliferation of mobile devices and mobile services engenders both threats and opportunities in the financial services market. Because they recognize the opportunity to find vulnerabilities in this nascent technology, cybercriminals are turning their focus to the mobile channel to launch new attacks. Yet, both...

Maximize Your Virtual and Cloud Environments

How can organizations best mitigate risk and meet increasingly stringent compliance requirements in the face of infrastructure transition and pressure to control costs? The answer: Virtual and cloud-based solutions. Unfortunately, these solutions introduce significant challenges with respect to security, audit and...

Medical Alert for Hospitals: Celebrity Snooping Places PHI at Risk and Kills Your Reputation

Celebrity snooping at healthcare facilities highlights an alarming - and often unchecked - trend: PHI privacy violations committed by current or former employees, contractors, and other insiders. Protecting patient privacy comes down to more than policies and regulations. What's needed is a way to enforce PHI...

PCI Case Study: Managing Security

Recent updates to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard have merchants and banking institutions alike working to get up to speed on the latest demands. See how one merchant, Stewart's Shops, (formerly Stewart's Ice Cream Company), a popular chain of convenience stores throughout upstate New York and...

Harvard Research Group Assessment: Linux Migration

Many organizations are considering migrating from proprietary technologies to those based on free, industry-wide standards. This will not only carve out IT costs, but also help scale your IT ecosystem and potentially improve performance. To better understand the customer migration experience, the Harvard Research...

Business Migration Guide - Solaris

With shrinking IT budgets, organizations must work as cost-effectively and efficiently as possible. To reduce costs in the datacenter, many IT managers are investigating or moving to commodity x86-based servers to replace their legacy RISC servers, such as those based on Oracle SPARC processors. To help ensure...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Your Solaris Alternative

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its associated subscription offer distinct advantages over Solaris in a server market dominated by x86 architecture. The benefits of openness, choice, performance, availability, flexibility, and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) is accelerating the migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux...

Realizing the Promise of Health Information Exchange

Health information exchange (HIE) - the electronic movement of health-related information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards - has the potential to transform nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery in this country. Recent policies have helped fund major growth in the world of...

Control Access & Protect Assets with Print-on-Demand Intelligent ID Cards

In order to address constantly evolving fraud and theft threats, businesses are deploying multiple levels of security, of which access cards are a critical component. Innovative, print-on-demand (POD) solutions enable a new generation of "intelligent" access cards that contain various technologies such as bar code,...

The State of Medical Image Archiving: A Survey for Healthcare IT Professionals

The increase in the availability and quality of medical images is enabling healthcare providers to successfully diagnose and resolve more patient problems than ever before. The downside is the demand placed on IT organizations to retain numerous medical images with huge file sizes in a reliable, secure, scalable, and...