One of the biggest UK banks – which prefers to remain anonymous – has ordered a multi-million dollar fraud solution from software provider Actimize. The solution will be used to monitor millions of financial transactions a day by using multiple anti-fraud solutions on a single platform, including protection for electronic payments, ATM transactions, remote banking and employee fraud. For more on this click here.
Meanwhile, the UK’s sixth largest building society has implemented compliance software to help prevent fraud and money laundering. You can read how Skipton Building Society is using the Compliance Alert system from Northland Solutions, which is replacing manual checks to support its new internet savings account, by clicking here.
We’re all to blame
In spite of these and other developments, there are plenty of commentators who say that as a society, we are still not taking enough security precautions with our online transactions. For example, in a recent YouGov survey, 42 per cent of respondents said their confidence in brands would be “greatly reduced” if they received a “phishing” email seeking personal data purporting to be from that brand or company. Perhaps surprisingly, however, people conceded that as users they are the party most responsible for protecting themselves from such attacks, followed by their own ISP or email provider and then those of the sender. For more on this, click here.
Some of the problem clearly lies with divergent management and IT cultures. In an attempt to help bridge that divide, the Information Security Forum has launched a diagnostic tool that aims to “sell” security to higher levels of management and thereby provide a framework to review information security strategies, resources and performance. “The diagnostic makes no judgement about how security is delivered but rather focuses on how well security is meeting business requirements,” explains Adrian Davis of the Information Security Forum. For more on this click here.
Moving onto the convergence of IT with electronic security, if you live in the UK you have probably witnessed the huge amount of coverage given to the opening of the new Eurostar service from St Pancras International station in London. The security for the strikingly refurbished station is being managed with an IP solution, which controls no less than around 450 cameras. The system has been designed to integrate with other management systems, including intruder systems, electronic access control, station management and help points. The predominantly Bosch system includes transmission codecs network video recording, RAID storage and VIDOS management. For more details, click here.
Police on one platform
Of course, it’s not just in the UK that IP video is taking centre stage. In Chicago, for example, police are using a remote video surveillance solution to deliver live and recorded video to mobile devices and terminals used by the city’s police. Using a solution from AirVisual, officers are also able to integrate various surveillance systems onto one platform and to deliver video and data to other responders over any network. Read more about this development by clicking here. But it’s not just the big cities that are benefiting from the latest in surveillance technology. In northern Italy, crime fighting has been given a boost in the small town of Sergnano which although home to only 3000 people, is spread across 13 sq. km. A Combined wired and wireless solution from Indigo Vision has been so successful, it’s claimed the system has already paid for itself. Click here for more details.
Finally, just to show that it’s not just video that is making all the running in the IP stakes, Wormald Italiana is installing an access control system at the Ruwais plant of Abu Dhabi Gas Industries. The system from CEM uses IP controllers to manage remote areas of the plant, which produces more than 23,000 tonnes of gas a day.
Best wishes for the holiday season and happy new year.
Ron Alalouff
Editor, Platform
