Identity Resolution Daily Links 2007-6-13
[Daily Post from Infoglide Software] Employee screening and the damage done
“From immigration concerns to retail loss prevention to national security, employers are taking much closer looks at the people they hire. What’s at stake may be pretty obvious, but what’s in place to facilitate the screening may not be ideal for the growing demand.”
Realtime IT Compliance: OMB Sets Security Configuration Contracts Language for Acquisitions
“U.S. Federal agencies must ‘develop plans for using the Microsoft Windows XP and Vista security configurations with an implementation date of no later than February 1, 2008.’”
Loss Prevention: Checkpoint Systems Introduces New ORT Solutions
“According to Federal law enforcement authorities, ORT costs retailers an estimated 30 billion dollars per year in merchandise. The new solutions will provide customers with a feature-rich, highly-scaleable set of retail security and merchandising tools to help reduce shrink, increase shelf availability of merchandise and improve profitability.”
Wired.com: AT&T ‘Spy Room’ Documents Unsealed; You’ve Already Seen Them
“However, this week AT&T acceded to the documents’ partial disclosure after the EFF threatened to take the matter of their sealing to a federal appeals court. Portions of the sealed documents had been published by Wired News in May of 2006, and more recently by the ABC News program Frontline.”
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