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Is Your WLAN Putting Your PCI Compliance at Risk?

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard was created in 2004 by major credit card companies - American Express, Discover Financial, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa International - to provide security and privacy of customers...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Encryption Key Management, Key Rotation and the PCI Data Security Standard

whitepaper The credit card associations Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover aligned their individual policy protection programs to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). This alignment in standards provided an industry...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Meeting and Exceeding PCI 1.1 Compliance Today

whitepaper Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diner's Club, Discover, and JCB collaborated to create a new set of standards based on CISP (Cardholder Information Security Policy), and known as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI).

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Travel Company Expects 20 Per Cent Increase in Turnover With Customer-Based System

whitepaper Italy-based Uvet American Express wanted to strengthen its service to customers. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Brain Force, the company developed the Dynamics Travel solution by using Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Tags: crm software

[02 Apr 2008]

Mobile 'radio silence' fear afflicts Brits

News A recent survey by American Express Insurance found the majority of Brits believe portable technology has had a negative effect on work/life balance rather than helping them manage their time better. In the same week as new warnings emerged of a...

Tags: crackberry, always-on, mobile

[31 Mar 2008]

Employing IBM Database Encryption Expert to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)

whitepaper In 2004, Visa USA, MasterCard International, American Express and Discover aligned their individual data protection programs to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS or PCI).

Tags: database management

[28 Mar 2008]

Workaholic Brits can't find the off switch

News The survey was carried out by American Express Insurance Services. Chris Rolland, head of American Express Insurance Services, said in a statement: "The use of mobile technology would seem an obvious way to keep up with the increased pace of...

Tags: work/life balance, blackberry, mobile, american

[19 Mar 2008]

American West Worldwide Express Gains Visibility With Cisco IP Communications Solution

whitepaper Headquartered in San Luis Obispo, California, American West Worldwide Express is a transportation company with more than 200 employees and regional offices in California, Texas, Illinois, and Ohio. American West Worldwide Express wanted to enhance...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[10 Jan 2008]

Photos of the year

Photo Plus, saw how the Heathrow Express trains running between the airport and Paddington are now kitted out with a wi-fi service. Street View has caught some unusual shots of the American public, including this San Franciscan, raising questions around...

Tags: photos, microsoft, car, google

[13 Dec 2007]

Credit card cover does apply overseas

News The ruling concluded a long-running legal dispute between the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and Lloyds TSB, Tesco Personal Finance (part of The Royal Bank of Scotland group) and American Express Services Europe.

Tags: credit card, online shopping, banks, ecommerce

[02 Nov 2007]

Philips' brings travel expenses down to earth

Case Study Dutch electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics has streamlined its travel and entertainment programme through strategic alliances with SkyTeam and American Express. To keep track of expenses, it opted for the travel and entertainment programme...

Tags: travel, benchmark, american express, philips

[03 Oct 2007]

Agfa Uses SAP Travel Expense Manager to Cut Travel Expense Processing Costs in Half

whitepaper Agfa worked with American Express Consulting and SAP to ensure the success of the rollout throughout Europe. With 20,000 employees supporting a market presence in more than 200 countries, travel is an important component of Agfa's business.

Tags: erp, sap, travel, processing

[28 Sep 2007]

Yahoo! fights China human rights suit

News s motion: "This is a lawsuit by citizens of China imprisoned for using the internet in China to express political views in violation of China law. It has no place in the American courts. Yahoo! has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by two...

Tags: human rights, china, yahoo!

[28 Aug 2007]

Zurich in North American Anticipates U.S.$25 Million Gain With SQL Server 2005 Solution

whitepaper Zurich deployed a new solution based on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and then upgraded to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, for the backend, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition for laptops in the field, and an application created using...

Tags: database management, risk, engineers, sql

[22 May 2007]

Web 2.0 still a minority pursuit for the wired world

News Pew found 73 per cent of US adults own a mobile phone, 68 per cent have a desktop computer, 30 per cent possess a laptop, and 73 per cent connect to the internet but very few use them to express themselves publicly via web 2.0 applications.

Tags: web 2.0

[08 May 2007]

Mediaweave Strengthens Client Relationships With Sage CRM

whitepaper Since 1983, Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based Mediaweave has been designing, creating, and implementing marketing and communication support tools for organizations worldwide, including Sony, Wal-Mart, Bacardi, Folgers, the San Diego Chargers, AT&T...

Tags: database management, sage crm, expanding, designing

[22 Jan 2007]

PCI Compliance: The CA Solution

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (referred to hereafter as "PCI") represents a collaboration between the leading credit card institutions, including, among others, Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

Tags: security standards, card, program, standards

[22 Dec 2006]

Bare-Metal Backup Solution Offers New Revenue Opportunities for IT Service Providers

whitepaper As a special bonus, two winners, each receiving a $250 American Express® Gift Card, will be randomly selected from among the first 150 people downloading this Webcast, and will be notified via e-mail from the publisher of InfoStor!

Tags: security standards, service providers, providers, backup

[04 Dec 2006]

Ensuring Data Privacy at American Express

whitepaper David Armes, Senior Portfolio Architect at American Express, discusses how his organisation met Data Transfer challenges head-on. Through a Managed File Transfer system, American Express was able to: Lower IT costs

Tags: ssl - tls, transfer, express, data transfer

[22 Nov 2006]

Will your next CIO be a non-techie?

Comment Robin Barrett, the ex-CIO of American Express International, who now runs a consultancy called Fluence, says: "For my experience I would say that there are only about a dozen CIOs in the FTSE 100 that have all the skills that a modern CIO needs.

Tags: cio

[18 Oct 2006]

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