Small businesses and financial institutions to benefit from combined payment security expertise
LONDON: Specialist Payment Card Industry (PCI) security service providers Foregenix and ControlScan have formed a strategic alliance to deliver a market-leading suite of technology solutions to acquiring banks and merchant service providers working with small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Panasonic last week unveiled the world’s lightest* business rugged, convertible Ultrabook™ with a unique Flip-Over design making it ideal for mobile sales workforces and executives to use in notebook or tablet mode. Combining high usability, style, durability and long battery life with hot swappable, replaceable battery, the Toughbook CF-AX2 is one of the first ready-made Microsoft Windows 8 Pro certified devices. This means business users can have the best of both worlds, using the Toughbook CF-AX2 as both a desirable touch-screen tablet and state-of–the-art, stylish Ultrabook™
Leading fraud consultancy UK Fraud (www.ukfraud.co.uk) has identified 10 key trends that will characterise the domestic fraud prevention market in 2013. These trends are:
1. With more high quality data becoming available to fraudsters than ever before, an economy forecast to contract and the UK’s benefits spend reducing, overall fraud levels will continue to increase dramatically across the UK and the rest of Europe. Fraud hotspots most likely to be affected in 2013 include: banks and card companies, insurers, online merchants, retailers and government be it HMRC, the universal credit scheme or local authorities.
Bracknell, UK, and San Francisco, CA: Lamar Bailey, Director of Security Research and Development with nCircle, has released his top five security threats to watch out for in 2013.
The New Year – and beyond – he predicts, will be a time of highly adaptive security threats, with four main strands - cyber-criminals, cyber-terrorists, political hacktivists and rogue employees – conspiring to create severe headaches for IT security professionals in all classes of public and private sector industries.
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