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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up Workers in jobs such as website design, development and technical support exercise the least out of all the professions nationwide, according to a new survey, with fewer than one in five meeting government activity... [20 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News The controversial ID project has hit another delay, with the government missing its own deadline to get the cards into the hands of Manchester residents. The new rollout date reveals how the government's... [16 Nov 2009]
Shared Services: The Practicalities of Local Council Cost Reduction
White Paper Local government in the UK has been undergoing modernisation initiatives centred on IT. Substantial investments have been made in digitising the way that local government delivers public services,... [16 Nov 2009]
Smart Cards and Biometrics in a Privacy-Sensitive Secure Personal Identification System
White Paper Both government and commercial organizations are implementing secure personal Identification (ID) systems to improve confidence in verifying the identity of individuals seeking access to physical or virtual locations. [14 Nov 2009]
Addressing the Insider Threat: Improving Database Security to Manage Risk Within the Federal Government
White Paper Government agencies face the same considerations in protecting critical, sensitive, and personally identifiable information as private sector companies but with the added complications of needing to safeguard national... [13 Nov 2009]
Driving Down Security and Compliance Costs: Learning From the Federal Government
White Paper This paper will examine the FDCC standard, and how businesses and non-Federal government organizations can learn from the experience of implementing FDCC in order to reduce costs and improve efficiency. [13 Nov 2009]
HSPD-12 & FIPS 201 PIV II: How Government Standards Affect Physical Access Control
White Paper In response to HSPD-12, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Computer Security Division initiated a new program for improving the identification and authentication of Federal employees and contractors for access to... [13 Nov 2009]
Fortinet and the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI)
White Paper After numerous cyber attacks on several federal agency computer systems in the time period following 9/11, The White House determined that the government needed a more comprehensive strategy to defend... [13 Nov 2009]
Refreshing Management of Risk: Guidance for Practitioners
White Paper M-o-R was first published by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) in 2002, "To help organisations put in place effective frameworks for taking informed decisions about risk". This was largely in response to the... [13 Nov 2009]
Adapting to a New Future: Impact of the Credit CARD Act of 2009 on Financial Institutions
White Paper Consistent with the current government focus on enhancing consumer protection, the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (Credit CARD Act of 2009) brings sea changes to the credit card... [13 Nov 2009]
Fraud Risk Management
White Paper Despite widespread coverage in the press, and government's and regulators' efforts to reduce fraud, economic crime continues to be a menace to businesses in Canada and around the world. Perpetrators of fraud invariably... [13 Nov 2009]
Implementing HIPAA Compliance With ScriptLogic
White Paper ScriptLogic's software solutions help many different types of enterprises comply with the requirements that arise from government legislation. The aim of this paper is to highlight ways in which ScriptLogic solutions can... [13 Nov 2009]
In Search of a Silver Bullet for Risk Management
White Paper With government funding of the financial services sector in full swing nearly the world over, all eyes are focused on how financial institutions manage their businesses and control their risks. For the foreseeable... [13 Nov 2009]
Varonis and FISMA Compliance
White Paper Title III of the E-Government Act signed into law in December of 2002, is entitled the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and it requires each federal agency to develop, document, and implement an... [13 Nov 2009]
Extending the Reach of Healthcare Organizations With Secure Networking
White Paper As the healthcare industry addresses the stress and pressures being placed on it by an aging population, a shortage in healthcare professionals, demands for quality of service, and new government regulations, the... [13 Nov 2009]
