Identity Resolution Daily Links 2010-08-24
By the Infoglide Team
Fraud Prevention: Medicare and Medicaid Fraud: US Healthcare Reform
“Earlier this year, a jury found Pfizer owed Wisconsin $9 million for violating the state Medicaid fraud law more than 1.4 million times by purposely overcharging the state for prescription drugs. The company faces potential fines from $140 million to $21 billion.”
Security Debrief: What is a Law Enforcement Fusion Center?
“Fusion centers that are doing strategic analysis are best positioned to prevent criminal acts. Trained intelligence analysts in these centers look at a local tip or Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) and then use advanced search tools across many databases simultaneously for indications that the tip could be part of a much bigger ‘iceberg’ hiding below the surface.”
ZDNet: Yankee Group: Infrastructure as a Service now a bona fide cloud strategy
“The survey of 400 enterprises finds ‘24 percent of large enterprises with cloud experience’ are already using IaaS, and an additional 37 percent expect to adopt IaaS during the next 24 months. ‘While adoption is still much slower than that of SaaS solutions, the market is gaining traction,’ says Yankee.”
Detroit Free Press: Tiny name differences on tickets not a worry
“Under its new ‘Secure Flight‘ process, the government compares airline passenger names, gender and birth dates with data on a terror watch list. However, a reservation or boarding pass that uses a middle initial instead of a full middle name, misses a hyphen, contains a tiny typo or leaves off the ‘Jr.’ designation should not cause a problem, according to the Transportation Security Administration.”
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