FBI building system that blows away fingerprinting

FBI building system that blows away fingerprinting; How the Defense Department might institutionalize war-time biometrics Security Strategies Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by Beyond Trust BeyondTrust PowerBroker: Root Access Risk Control for the Enterprise Compliance efforts and security concerns have driven businesses to make substantial investments in threat control. In this paper, EMA analysts examine BeyondTrust PowerBroker, a comprehensive solution designed to close these gaps for the enterprise with provable control. Read More Spotlight Story The IA Professional's Toolkit Part 6 As an information assurance (IA) consultant and as an in-house IA professional, you are a vendor to your client or your employer. How you handle vendors during a consulting project or in your day-to-day work can affect the success of your security project.  Read full story Related News: FBI building system that blows away fingerprinting The FBI plans to migrate from its IAFIS fingerprint database to a new biometrics system that will include DNA records, 3-D facial imaging, palm prints and voice scans. How the Defense Department might institutionalize war-time biometrics The Defense Department is looking to turn its war-time biometrics experience into an enduring weapon at home and abroad. Credit-card security standards questioned, survey says Most IT security professionals who must comply with the industry standards to protect credit card data think those standards have no impact at all on actual security, according to new study by Ponemon Institute. Microsoft to release identity product My primary interest at last week's European version of The Experts Conference was Microsoft's upcoming Forefront Identity Manager 2010. If you haven't been following closely, you might know this soon to release product as Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) "2". Startups see dollar signs in sex Technology can help mitigate the new dangers presented by online dating and the "hook-up" culture of today's youth, as well as the long-present threat of sexual misconduct by trusted authority figures, according to three companies presenting at the DEMO conference on Tuesday. Court to scammer: Give up your house or go to jail Too many online scammers get away with what amounts to a wrist slap but a case if Las Vegas this week seems to be heading the right direction at least.    Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. 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