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Article: PROTECTING COMPANIES FROM IDENTITY THEFT.(Feature)
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- Security Technology & Design
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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PROTECTING COMPANIES FROM IDENTITY THEFT
By Marleah Blades
Organizations must think company-wide and cross public/private barriers to prevent data breaches
A man walking down an empty residential street opens a mailbox and shoves its contents -- including a credit card statement containing four convenience checks -- into his jacket. A hacker breaks into a corporate database and downloads information on all the company's 1,200 employees. A group collects social security numbers from a phishing scam that asks e-mail recipients to update their personal information on a sham Web site. Teenagers watch a retail employee throwing paper transaction ...