Hackers Conquer Two-Factor Authentication
BY Mel Duvall, Chief Content Officer at CIOZone
“Fraudsters have definitely proven that strong two-factor authentication processes can be defeated,” said Avivah Litan of Gartner. “Enterprises need to protect their users and accounts using a three-prong layered fraud prevention approach that uses stronger authentication, fraud detection and out-of-band transaction verification and signing for high-risk transaction.”
New IBM Analytics For Business Intelligence
BY Mel Duvall, Chief Content Officer at CIOZone
In its recently released Global CIO Study, IBM found that 83% of respondents identified business intelligence and analytics as the best way to help enhance their organizations’ competitiveness. At the company’s Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas, IBM outlined a series of new products and services. It includes tools to analyze the increasing volumes of unstructured data found on Web sites, on social networking sites and in digital files.
Top Ten Email Related Disasters of 2009
BY Mel Duvall, Chief Content Officer at CIOZone
Forget about vampires, ghouls and zombies. You were much more likely to receive a fright this year from something lurking in your e-mail. There were the usual crop of Trojan horses and phishing expeditions, and as the surprising list points out, some of the scares go all the way up to White House and the FBI.
