Identity Resolution Daily Links 2010-08-29
[Post from Infoglide] Surface Web, Dark Web, and Social Media
“A recent article in Bank Systems & Technology says that financial services institutions are discovering increasingly sophisticated attempts to defraud their customers – more sophisticated in how they gather information and employ it in their criminal schemes. ‘As fraudsters increasingly seek to exploit weaknesses in consumers’ defenses through social engineering schemes rather than hack vulnerabilities in banks’ security systems, the need for enterprisewide solutions to detect fraud across channels is greater than ever.’”
IT-Director.com: An Intelligent Match
“Buying rather than building speeds up the process of filling gaps in (or simply improving) functionality, and so is a logical step, and Experian itself has plenty of acquisition experience (including of course QAS itself). It opens up the intriguing possibility that Experian QAS may be looking in the future to spread its wings beyond its historically tight market of contact data management. If so then this may not be the last acquisition that it makes.”
AllBusiness: TSA “Secure Flight” Requirements
“Effective November 1, 2010, if you do not accurately provide the TSA with your full legal name as it appears on your government issued identification within 72 hours of a flight, your reservation could be canceled, at will, by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Why are they doing this? To enhance the security of commercial air travel, the TSA has developed Secure Flight, a program that compares airline passenger information against U.S. government watch lists.”
InformationWeek: Top 10 Cloud Computing Complaints
“‘You need the ability to migrate data from one cloud service provider to another, and there are cloud interoperability scenarios that need to be addressed as well,’ notes Matt Edwards, director of the cloud services initiative at TM Forum, a communications industry association. ‘There are multiple things that need to be addressed to avoid vendor lock-in and to remove the barriers for the adoption of cloud services.’”
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