Data Strategy articles from June 2007

Data Strategy archives from June 2007

LEADER: Plugging leaks in credit card data security.
June 19, 2007... When you went shopping at the weekend, what did you think happened to your credit card data? Beyond waiting for it to be authorised, you probably didn't give it a second thought. But if you had known that the data would sit on a server in...

Acxiom buy-out is 'for the long term'.
June 19, 2007... Acxiom's European chief executive, Dave Allen, has hailed the #1.5bn buy out of the business by Silver Lake and ValueAct Capital as a strategic move designed to deliver long-term value. He also quashed rumours that it presages a sale of the...

IN BRIEF: Deadline for paper records looming.(Brief article)
June 19, 2007... Organisations that have yet to digitise their paper records risk breaching Data Protection Act regulations, a data storage software house has warned. Personal data held in paper-based records has to be digitised and stored securely by...

Oracle ahead in database market.
June 19, 2007... Oracle has held its place as market leader in the relational database management software (RDBMS) space, according to industry analyst IDC. Its review of the worldwide market showed Oracle with a 44.4 per cent share of total worldwide...

Conferma meets PCI DSS with Ingrian.
June 19, 2007... Online corporate hotel booking provider Conferma has achieved compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard ahead of the June 30th deadline. With up to 100,000 data entries per day to encrypt and secure, it has implemented an...

IN BRIEF: Wifi networks open corporate data to hackers.(Brief article)
June 19, 2007... Passive monitoring of public wifi networks in the City of London by NTA Monitor has revealed that corporate networks are open to outsiders. By monitoring traffic in cafes, it discovered that many firms in nearby offices were either using no...

Security 'overlooked' in MiFID compliance.
June 19, 2007... The rush to achieve compliance with the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) by November 1 is leaving existing data security risks exposed, say experts, meaning firms are wide open to a range of potentially damaging new threats....

The size of a company is no indicator of risk.
June 19, 2007... PLCs and multinationals may be perceived to suffer more prolonged and targeted attacks on their IT and security, but their smaller scale does not make SMEs any more secure, says financial and business adviser Grant Thornton. "The threat...

IN BRIEF: Oracle tackles compliance with Audit Vault.(Brief article)
June 19, 2007... Oracle has released Audit Vault to support regulatory requirements and insider threat management. Using Oracle database infrastructure, the solution provides enterprise- class audit consolidation and management to simplify compliance...

Aegis cuts email archive needs.
June 19, 2007... Global media group Aegis has gained four terabytes of disk space in 12 weeks by implementing an email archiving solution from Zantaz. The company adopted the new Enterprise Archiving Solution (EAS) as part of a migration of its UK...

Teradata and Protegrity link for archive security.
June 19, 2007... Teradata and Protegrity have teamed up to offer Defiance BAR (back-up, archive and recovery) Encryption, a solution designed to protect archived data as well as intellectual property information and business data. The solution makes encrypted...

IN BRIEF: DLG gives insight into family life.(Brief article)
June 19, 2007... DLG has launched a prospect database, Family File, which provides data on more than 5.5 million UK families. Data variables include recency, geography, number, birthdate and gender of children, parents' date of birth, household income,...

Online prospect data service launched.
June 19, 2007... Bureau and data services provider Ai has linked with marketing automation software vendor Alterian to launch an online prospect data portal called Ai Pipeline. The service provides access to the Ai Prospector database, built from 17...

Hampshire Police map neighbourhood profiles.
June 19, 2007... Hampshire Constabulary has implemented MapInfo to create neighbourhood profiles across 144 areas under its jurisdiction. The move is part of the police service's efforts to meet government objectives to measure and manage the performance...

IN BRIEF: Capscan takes public sector focus.(Brief article)
June 19, 2007... Capscan is promoting its address management and data integrity services to the public sector at GC 2007 Expo in June. The technology event is aimed at government and local authority organisations. "The public sector is facing huge...

NSF rebrands as Xpression.
June 19, 2007... The Direct Marketing Association is relaunching the National Suppression File under the name Xpression. The file is central to the DMA's best practice standards and is crucial in helping achieve environmental targets agreed with Defra. ...

Why breaches can break a brand.
June 19, 2007... The scale of data security incidents is now equivalent to every UK household having its personal records exposed to theft or fraud. A study we commissioned found that in the year to October 2006, 25.45 million records were vulnerable to attack....

LETTER: New attitude to online retail customers needed.(Letter to the editor)
June 19, 2007... I read with interest CheetahMail's statistic that 41 per cent of online shoppers regularly get all the way to the checkout before abandoning their purchase for no apparent reason (Re-marketing helps boost online shoppers' baskets, May 2007)....

LETTER: Time has come for smart use of business data.(Letter to the editor)
June 19, 2007... I read with interest Nick Frazer's recent commentary on small businesses (Opinions on Data, Data Strategy, May). Information Arts fully endorses Experian's approach to B2B marketing in terms of learning from the consumer sector and...

Data managers shall go to the ball.
June 19, 2007... Income-generating teams are the superstars of a charity. Data management teams can have a more humble, 'Cinderella' status. This is because the work of a data management team is traditionally viewed as a cost centre. They are money spenders,...

COVER STORY: Lock up your data.
June 19, 2007... Credit card merchants cannot afford to ignore PCI warnings about failure to comply with the Data Security Standard - the penalties are prohibitive and will be strictly enforced. David Reed reports You have 30 days to comply. If your company...

'Providing stats was, and remains, a labour of love'.
June 19, 2007... Trevor Bugg, data compiler with AFS Enterprises, part of the Association of Football Statisticians Q What does your job involve? My main task is accurately maintaining match and player information relating to senior domestic...

LEGAL COLUMN: Susan Mann.(Column)
June 19, 2007... Susan Mann, counsel at Reed Smith Richards Butler In September 2006, American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International announced the formation of the Payment Card Security Standards Council,...

CASE STUDY: Complete cure.
June 19, 2007... The Royal Surrey County Hospital needed a value-for-money, expandable storage solution to consolidate its data - and ONStor provided a perfect fit The Royal Surrey County Hospital is a medium-sized, 520-bed district general hospital...

DATA FINANCIALS: Businesses slow to adopt continuity planning.
June 19, 2007... All you ever wanted to know about making profit from data but were too afraid to ask One in ten businesses have no disaster recovery solution in place and are putting their entire business at risk as a result, according to a survey by...

Food, value and niche retailers miss e-commerce boom.
June 19, 2007... Online sales in the UK soared by 33.4 per cent in 2006 to reach #10.9bn, according to a study by Verdict Research. This means e- commerce is outpacing offline retail growth threefold. The share of consumer spending going to online stores has...

Turning down the volume.
June 19, 2007... As data volumes grow at an increasing pace, companies are realising they cannot just keep buying more space and are turning to smarter digital solutions. David Reed reports Reed's Law states that the volume of data doubles every 12 months....

A brand new kind of relationship.
June 19, 2007... Customer relationship management is evolving into something new - a holistic approach to reaching consumers that makes them feel they are in charge, rather than 'managed'. Emma Rubach investigates A few years ago, you couldn't move for CRM...

Life is sweet for boss with two teams.(Interview)
June 19, 2007... Data Strategy talks to data practitioners who toil unnoticed behind the scenes Q What is your name and job title? Alison Parsons, head of client services and analytics, GI Insight. Q What does your job involve? Is there a lot of...

Smokers face the nicotine paradox.
June 19, 2007... How is the smoking ban in England making you feel? If the answer is 'stressed', you might find it that much harder to give up smoking. According to the Eurobarometer study of consumer habits in the EU, almost half of all smokers...