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NetSuite's decision to hold an auction-style initial public offering later this month will probably pay off, one analyst judged on Friday.

Burwood City Council in Sydney has rolled out an enterprise search solution claiming it has improved productivity tenfold.

At next week's RSA Conference in San Francisco smart card vendor Gemalto will introduce new technology designed to give online shoppers an easy way to log on to their accounts using a smart card device that plugs into any PC.

Over the next few months, Ebay will be offering its PayPal users a new tool in the fight against phishers: a US$5 security key.

There was a workshop on the Economics of Information Security held at Cambridge in England last June. Studying the economics of information security is, to me, absurdly trivial. It is like studying the economics of operating a trading desk, an interesting pursuit for the accountants at Schwab and eTrade but completely irrelevant to what is going on in the real economy.

RSA Security late last year acquired privately-held Cyota, which offers online security and anti-fraud services to help financial institutions protect consumer accounts. Art Coviello, CEO of RSA Security, recently sat down with Network World's senior editor Ellen Messmer to discuss the Cyota acquisition and RSA's views on the future of authentication.

By now, you'd think that nobody would be gullible enough to fall for a phish. But you'd be wrong.

RSA Security late last year acquired privately held Cyota, which offers online security and anti-fraud services to help financial institutions protect consumer accounts. CEO Art Coviello recently sat down with Ellen Messmer to discuss the Cyota acquisition and RSA's views on the future of authentication. With its anti-fraud services for banks, Cyota is a very different type of business than RSA Security traditionally has been in with its SecurID products for two-factor authentication and the BSAFE encryption toolkits.

Companies that make regulatory compliance the sole driver of their information security efforts could be weakening their long-term security posture instead of improving it, according to IT managers at the 32nd annual US Computer Security Institute conference held last week. Therefore, it's better to make compliance a by-product of a broader corporate security strategy -- not its sole end objective, they said.

Growing fears of identity theft and e-mail phishing scams, exacerbated by the recent data leaks at ChoicePoint and Bank of America, are pushing companies to adopt new IT security tools in a bid to bolster consumer confidence in online transactions.

ETrade Financial will soon launch a two-factor authentication service designed to provide customers of the online financial services company with an added layer of protection when they access account information over the Internet.