January 22, 2014 - HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, today announced it has acquired IdenTrust, Inc. (IdenTrust®), a leading provider of solutions for globally interoperable digital identities that can authenticate, encrypt, and create electronic signatures for every type of transaction or activity where proof of identity is essential.
January 21, 2014 - A new survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit finds that nearly all respondents' businesses have seen a positive economic return from investment in data analysis for the strategy area. Also, the single biggest barrier to retailers making effective use of data is figuring out what is useful amidst the overload—a problem cited by half of the respondents.
January 21, 2014 - KVH Co. Ltd., Asia's leading information delivery platform headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, today announced it has launched the cloud service "KVH PCI DSS Ready Cloud" compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard[1] (PCI DSS), a proprietary information security standard for organizations handling cardholder information, in partnership with Link, Inc.
January 21, 2014 - Union First Market Bankshares Corporation ("Union") today announced that it will reissue credit and debit cards impacted by the data breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus.
January 21, 2014 - SAS is ranked as a category leader in the Chartis RiskTech Quadrant® for Solvency II Technology Solutions. The report highlighted insurers using leading robust data management, analytics and reporting platforms like SAS® Risk Management for Insurance to juggle Solvency II demands.
January 21, 2014 - Enterprises that choose to avoid using big data analytics techniques because of the possible dangers, such as security and privacy breaches, may be creating risk of another type, says a new white paper from global nonprofit IT association ISACA. "Generating Value From Big Data Analytics" encourages information technology professionals to look at big data holistically, taking into account the cost of inaction.
January 20, 2014 - The Target data breach which has left tens of millions of payment cards compromised was carried out using off-the-shelf malware authored by a 17 year old Russian, according to security firm IntelCrawler.
January 20, 2014 - New statistics released by the European Central Bank (ECB) show that migration to the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) gathered pace strongly in December.
