Business Week carried an article last year on the state of IT projects in the public sector and one of the important items in the current issue of Economist is the fact that, IT is cheapter than other forms of communication. For instance, the special report in the Economist pertaining to government portals hinted that face to face communication is basically at £14.65p, as against £1.39 for a call centre and only 0.25p for web service.
Archive for February, 2008
E-police stations/desks
The project for a technology-based police station is currently under review in France. To those familiar with the initiative, the cybercommissariat (e-police desks/stations) will investigate cases of theft and criminal activities online backed with software to control the computers of those under criminal investigation. The electronic police stations will be a compulsory one stop point for those who want to lodge complaints pertaining to online frauds.
Source : Direct Soir 14 Février 2008 – news item captioned Un plan contre la criminalité
Network security
You will tell me that there are numerous network security tools on the market to enable us detect servers that spill out unsolicited mails and attempts to take over our PC’s. Now there is a movie on this subject and tools that make network security something very easy provided you pointed your browser to this web site:
source : iht.com
e-mail and soc.gen
Extracts of the rogue trader questioning by investigators published in the IHT of this week hinted that the executive forged numerous e-mails to justify his fictitious buy and sell orders thus making observers to ask these questions:
-why was it difficult for the network administsrators to identify the fake orders?
-why was it difficult for external service providers to detect the fake e-mails?
-Is it possible for a person with a thorough understanding of e-mail routing system to forge electronic communication?
Pending the emergence of the truth the efforts of thousands of employees are jeopardized.. at least for the moment.
