| Risk management for better health Next month at the European Identity Conference I'll be talking about Risk Management ("Risk Management for Better Health, Fiscal and Physical"). In doing some research for that keynote, I came across a company which hosts what they call a "fraud fighting" service, but which comes under the risk management heading and just might be the pre-cursor to a type of service we've only thought of as "pie in the sky" until now. Why reputation works as an identity management element Last issue I began to talk about reputation as a component of an identity system. If you missed that issue, you should visit the Web site for Sxore, to learn more about Sxip's implementation of a reputation-based system. Today, I want to look at the implications of a reputation-based identity system. Is your reputation at risk? What we hear or read about someone can shape our ideas well before we actually meet them. That makes some believe that reputation could be the next online-identity risk. Global executives warned of online reputation danger Nearly three-quarters of Asia Pacific business executives regard their company's reputation as vulnerable and nearly all of them use the internet to assess other firms. Internet Identity Workshop throws up the question of what's next in identity? Last week I said that I expect to learn quite a bit at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) - the semi-annual ID geekfest in Mountain View, Calif., and I did indeed learn quite a bit. Some of it was even about identity ... Are You Infected? A Smart and Simple Test. A common tactic used by malware is to block the infected computer from connecting to the Web sites of antivirus and security companies. Such blocks are meant to prevent you and your antivirus program from getting help in removing the infection. Chinese information warfare capabilities As world economic conditions continue to worsen, I expect to see growing use of industrial espionage techniques by current actors and by new ones. Threats against proprietary information and perhaps even risks from sabotage may well increase over the next months and perhaps years. Despite the reflex tendency for retrenchment as revenues fall, now is not the time to be reducing the information security workforce. PCI Standard Criticized at House Hearing At a congressional hearing last week, federal lawmakers and retail industry officials contended that the PCI security rules have done little to stop payment card data thefts and fraud. April giveaways galore
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. | 
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