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As IBM gears up for its SecureWorld security conference in Washington next Monday, Big Blue lent a major helping hand to secure business-to-business this week with the introduction of a new security testing lab and products to help support Identrus.

IT managers for online retailers and at Visa card-issuing banks will soon be confronted with installing the latest weapon in the increasing war against online fraud: payer authentification applications.

There were few major announcements at this week's debut of the Internet World Wireless show in New York. Perhaps this means some badly needed sanity is being restored to the wireless market.

Verisign Inc. hopes to enable faster and more secure deployment of e-commerce transactions with its B2B Trust services package introduced this week.

Fraud is one of the worst fears any businessperson faces, whether running an online shop or a brick-and-mortar enterprise. What if the customer is passing bad checks or bad credit cards?

New York, Friday, 2:15 p.m. Network Financial Global has spent four intense months putting together a multibillion-dollar deal. The merger and acquisition lawyers say that the contracts absolutely must be signed before 5 p.m. In addition, the banks must be given full legal authorization to move $450 million in cash, and the clearinghouse must be duly instructed to hand over $4.2 billion in stock to the partners in the deal. If the companies blow this deadline, a $125 million penalty kicks in.

RSA Security today announced new products and initiatives designed to help the company capitalize on the growing demand for software used by corporations to protect their data. The announcements come less than a week before the RSA Data Security Conference is due to begin in San Jose, California. Compaq, Microsoft, and IBM are among a slew of big firms expected to highlight new security products and initiatives at the show.

Microsoft, IBM and three other companies with a vested interest in promoting public key infrastructure products and services yesterday announced the founding of the PKI Forum to speed the adoption of the technology.

An organization formed by eight of the world's largest banks has emerged from its chrysalis to become a separate company, Identrus, which will work to facilitate interoperability between the banks' Internet systems.