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Governments everywhere have come to realise that digital service delivery can be both more effective and less costly.
Which is why Australia’s Federal government established the Digital Transformation Agency to pave the way for an aggressive push into digital services.
iTnews has chronicled the resulting stream of new initiatives that change the way citizens and businesses work with government.
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Encryption prevents red faces
Every week brings another public announcement on some dramatic compromise of confidential, sensitive information. Sometimes, it's the loss, or theft, of a computer or hard drive or the hacking of supposedly confidential files containing individuals' private, identifying data, such as credit-card numbers or health records.
Nov 27 2006 1:31PM
Security
Industry views: Encryption certainly not going anywhere
No one questions that email is universally adopted. It is in the mainstream. And despite the huge advantages of personal and corporate productivity, the open nature of the internet has made email vulnerable to interception and even alteration by malicious parties. As the risks to the privacy and security of email messaging have grown, so have efforts to protect it.
Nov 7 2006 8:15PM
Security
Boffins show off light-speed encryption
Engage cloaking device.
Oct 12 2006 10:06AM
Security
Review: DeskCrypt
One of the issues with software encryption systems is that you have to take care to have all the relevant software elements, certificates and so on precisely configured and in place. One little slip-up and you may find yourself locked out of your own data.
Aug 9 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: ProtectDrive
ProtectDrive encrypts disk drives, either wholly or in part, an approach that may well appeal to organizations or government agencies which run a fleet of laptops, or have multi-user access to fixed workstations. In such cases, concerns about data being misappropriated from the disk drives, should they fall into the wrong hands, can be very real.
Aug 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: SecureDoc
This is not just a simple plug-and-play product. It is perhaps better thought of as an encryption methodology for those who understand IT security and wish to incorporate robust protection for sensitive data resident on their hard drives or portable media.
Aug 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Holographic breakthrough boosts data encryption and storage
Japanese scientists have predicted a bright future for holographic data encryption and storage, promising that holographic technology could be developed to allow massive amounts of encrypted data to be accessed at very high speeds.
Apr 18 2006 10:33AM
Security
