Global Security Watch > IBM Forms Data Governance Council

[Payments News] "The Council's ultimate goal is to transform data governance and compliance from yearly audits to real-time, change-driven, on demand business processes that continually assess risks, update policies and manage resources across the enterprise."Other companies who have joined with IBM in this effort include ABN Amro, ActivCard, Airmagnet, American Express, Bank of Montreal, Bell Canada, Blueworld, Cadence Design, Centerprise, City of New York FISA and DoE, Consultrex, Corticon Technologies, Danske Bank, Deutsche Bank, Fidelis Security, Great American Insurance, Huntington Bank, Key Bank, Merrill Lynch, Mitratech, Navigant Consulting, Novartis, Government of Nassau County, Ping Identity, TIAA-CREF, TeliaSonara, North Carolina State University, Northwestern Mutual, Nova Southeastern University, the United Nations Development Program, SPS and the World Bank.

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[Blogs.siliconvalley.com] Good Morning Silicon Valley: With 3D views of about 40 American cities and enhanced satellite images of most everything else, the service allows users to do virtual flyovers of chosen locales and then, with the help of Google's local search and mapping applications, find local businesses. It is a very slick application (sadly not yet Mac-friendly) and one that Microsoft's going to have a tough time besting despite its 7-year familiarity with bird's-eye databases (see "Gates redlines Israeli researchers' 'sarcasm meter' ").

[Blog.buys.co.za] Buys IT Law Consultants - BLOG: Forrester Research, for example, predicted American firms alone would sell US$316 billion in goods and services via the Web by 2010. That figure would more than double 2004's online spending to account for some 12 percent of all retail sales, up from about 7 percent today.

[Idcorner.org] The Identity Corner: However, the user “aliases” (also referred to by ID-FF as “pseudonyms”) in Liberty Alliance ID-FF are not pseudonyms at all: they are centrally generated and doled out by the identity provider, which first and foremost acts on behalf of (and in the security interests of) the service providers. While enterprise identity architectures such as the Liberty Alliance ID-FF architecture may be adequate for the corporate management of the identities of employees and suppliers who access their corporate resources, it would have highly problematic implications if used for government-to-citizen identity management.

[Ie.webservicespipeline.com] Web Services Pipeline | Trends: Web services provide a way to get there (but not the only way). We feel that the pipeline would be able to focus on helping our constituents build a roadmap to SOAs, which can encompass a number of different types of technologies, including enterprise application integration, business process management, and other technologies that currently don't fit neatly into the jurisdiction of Web services.

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