A health informatics professor from Sydney University today said Australia's e-health systems should be strictly open source rather than using proprietary software.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has signed a five-year deal with digital identity firm IdenTrust to enable more secure authentication and electronic signatures for CommBiz customers using certain applications.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship has extended its contracts with Unisys for desktop services and biometric identity management.
National Australia Bank is confident that it has the tools it needs to leapfrog rivals by adopting three-factor authentication, adding an extra means of security to the normal two factors most Australian banks offer customers to secure their transactions.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Health Minister Nicola Roxon released a report on the nation's hospitals today by the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission which recommends a $1.2 to 1.9 billion spend on e-health.
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Faced with the thought of a USB drive, notebook PC or backup tape going missing, most IT managers look to some form of encryption as the first layer of defence. However, according to one storage security expert, that's largely a pointless exercise.
Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.
It's official: Australia is an easy target for Russian crime gangs some are even turning Aussie lonely hearts into money mules. But are those "victims" actually guilty?
When foreign markets are willing to pay twice as much for your exports, it's usually a good sign. Unfortunately for Australia, the goods being traded are compromised PCs but why are Australians worth twice as much as Americans?
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Our erstwhile Shanghai correspondent Brendon Chase wanders into a Shanghai tech market to sort the fake from the real and to see how the fake iPhones stack up to the real thing.
Sceptical that Australians are targeted by cybercrime? Late last year the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) was asked to repatriate hundreds of Commonwealth Bank customer credentials which had been stolen via the ZeuS trojan.
What Gershon proposes is nothing more or less than a wide-scale, transformational change program. These unfortunately, rarely meet with complete success.
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Suncorp CIO Jeff Smith talks about two-factor authentication using small token devices.
Microsoft customers need to better authenticate applications they install on their PCs, so the next challenge for Microsoft is to figure out how to provide that information, according to Scott Charney, the VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group.
At the RSA 2008 conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie describes a new plan for Internet security that includes the creation of a trusted stack. Each element can be authenticated, from the operating system to applications, people, and data.
Australia leads the world when it comes to deploying strong authentication, according to Jay Heiser, research VP infosecurity, Gartner.
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Although Seagate BlackArmor is difficult to use for networking novices, it is a good choice for small business and advanced users.
HP' s 24-port ProCurve offers PoE+, a lifetime warranty and free software upgrades.
Although it's expensive and requires networking experience to use, the Synology DS209+ offers excellent throughput and nearly all the features you're likely to need in a small-business NAS server.
The Thecus N5200 Pro is definitely a higher end NAS, and will benefit power users and tweakers a lot more than entry-level users.
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