Features
Making customers jump through hoops
The purpose of multi-channel banking is to make things easier for the customer to access his or her account wherever and whenever they need to. However, with the increasing number of channels coming on stream, the architecture is becoming much more complicated and expensive to administer for banks and building societies.
Jul 27 2004 5:25PM
Security
Review: Crypto Anywhere
Encrypting email is a must for the paranoid among us, and Crypto Anywhere provides the tools necessary to encrypt and decrypt email messages. Among its new features are Outlook integration and the ability to create an executable that can run off a floppy or flash disk, thereby circumventing the need to install software on a terminal when using Crypto Anywhere in an internet café.
Jul 23 2004 12:00AM
Security
Review: BitZipper
It would seem that compression and encryption are fast becoming the best of friends. BitZipper is the latest in a line of compression applications trying to eat away at WinZip's dominance by adding high-grade encryption into the deal.
The software prides itself on its ability to deal with more compression file types than WinZip as well as 256-bit AES encryption (which can be found in WinZip 9.0). Setting up is easy enough and offers a wizard just as WinZip does. The installation is slightly less convoluted than WinZip.
Jul 21 2004 12:00AM
Security
Spam – what's the solution?
The problem of spam hardly needs an introduction. It is a time-waster for recipients. It has its sinister side in the form of V-spam and phishing. And it consumes infrastructure resources -- especially bandwidth. The only real solution available today is blocking: either at the recipients' premises or, sometimes, at the recipients' ISP. But this feels very much like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted and there must be a better alternative.
Jul 20 2004 4:47PM
Security
Top 10 techniques to control spam for the enterprise
Spam within the enterprise has undoubtedly evolved from an annoyance to a critical business problem. No approach to spam can work in isolation as unlike viruses, no single technology is able to stem the tide. I believe that by utilising the following top ten techniques an organisation can arm itself successfully against the menace of spam.
Jul 13 2004 2:52PM
Security
Wi-Fi hotspots pose corporate security risk
Wi-fi has exploded across Britain this year, and is set to continue growing. The capability to improve mobile working means that wireless technology is allowing networked enterprises to tap into the true potential of their employees. But mobile users accessing the internet from corporate machines in Wi-fi hotspots are often doing so with little or no security controls in place. This could lead to network infection, which can have dramatic financial and operating consequences. With the average corporate enterprise infection costing an estimated £33,000 to repair, preventing infection at Wi-fi hotspots is a critical concern for many organisations.
Jul 13 2004 11:17AM
Security
Forget the FUD line and stop the “geek-speak”
Some stats indicate that the IT security market is going to reach $40 billion by 2007. If you are a vendor offering something in that space that executives feel they need, you are going to be rolling in cash. For now, though, buyers are still a bit covetous with the green stuff.
Jul 8 2004 4:12PM
Security
Spyware – a nuisance or a real threat?
Spyware is a term whose use is becoming increasingly frequent in the lexicon of internet security threats. Just as computer users begin to think that their systems are protected against current menaces – various types of computer malware and spam, etc, so they are faced with yet another challenge. But just how big a threat is spyware for the corporate and home computer user today?
Jul 6 2004 4:30PM
Security
