A National Identity Tool that can aid India's Experiments with the UIDMexico has implemented the world's largest national identity scheme involving biometrics. As India gets ready to bring in its own Unique IDs, they might want to borrow a leaf from Mexico's experience. |
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The Insider: A Liability or An Asset?The insider is an asset. In fact, the insider is your greatest asset. And indeed can, in unfortunate and preventable circumstances, become your greatest liability. It's absolutely worth investing in steps to avoid such from happening. |
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What are the Most Overrated Security Technologies?The security community has grown to depend on some basic technologies in the fight against cyber thieves, such as antivirus software and firewalls. But are practitioners clinging to tools that outlived their usefulness long ago? Were those tools ever really useful to begin with? |
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Scareware will be Most Costly Security Scam Of 2010Fake antivirus programs that encourage web users to part with their hard-earned cash and download hoax security software is likely to be the most costly scam of 2010, says McAfee. |
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Planning for virtualization? Beware of server overloadAs virtualization stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives are learning that double-digit physical-to-virtual server ratios are things of the past. |
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The Top Technology PrioritiesCautious optimism is the anecdotal sentiment we hear most often when discussing the health and demeanor of enterprise IT, and data in a recent Network World technology priorities study bears that out. |
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IT Budgets: It's Time to Rethink Your ChargebacksLet's face it: Your department is a cost center without a revenue stream to offset your cost structure. Hence, you are totally reliant on the revenue-producing units within the company to pay your way. |
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ERP Support: How Far Will Oracle Go to Protect Golden Egg?What does Oracle think about those companies that offer third-party maintenance and support services for Oracle's software--for up to half off Oracle's price? Look no further than the names of these two lawsuits: |
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For IT Jobs, an Untapped Vein of TalentIf we keep going the way we are now, this year we will outsource one in four IT jobs to India, Russia and other countries that supply low-cost labor, according to the Hackett Group, a trend that sends a message to young people contemplating technology careers: IT work is unstable. You can't count on climbing any career ladder. |
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Early Attention To Security Will Bolster Cloud OfferingsLike a fickle 12-year-old with a favorite pop band, the security industry has forgotten all about last year's fads and is focused on a new one: cloud computing. |
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