Most Popular Stories
Events
- TM Forum Management World 2010
18-20, May — Nice, France - Non-Traditional ISR
Mar 22-24, 2010 — Sheraton National Hotel Arlington, Arlington, VA - AIIM Expo + Conference
April 20-22, 2010 — Philadelphia, PA - Sensors Expo & Conference
June 7-9, 2010 — Rosemont, IL
Sponsored Links
HOT TOPICS >> Solid State Drives | IT Security | Open Source | ARM Processors | Google Chrome 4
INDUSTRY >> Healthcare | Government | Financial Services | Biotech | Compliance
Free Newsletter
FierceCIO is the leading source of executive IT management news and information. Join 32,000+ CIOs, CTOs and Sr. IT managers who get FierceCIO twice a week via email and save time.
About | View Sample | Privacy
Latest News
Popular Topics
Whitepapers
Sharing sensitive information safely
Companies today have to be extremely careful not to let personal or private data get into the wrong hands. One way of doing this is called anonymization, which "shreds" information, allowing companies to share information about their customers with appropriate parties without revealing personal data. In effect, the process of anonymization creates digital signatures of information that can be compared against other signatures for possible matches. At the same time, the signatures cannot be used to recreate the original data. The risk to companies is that every time an organization makes a copy of its data and sends it someplace else, the risk of someone stealing it grows. And it's twice as hard to protect, since a copy exists. With anonymization, companies are protecting their own resources, as well as defending the privacy of customers.
To read more about the benefits of anonymization:
- read the article at ComputerWorld
Related Stories
- Facebook sued over privacy changes
- IT workers in a fog about cloud computing
- Supreme Court: Are text messages private?
- Products prevent identity fraud
- Laptop theft puts personal data at risk
- Beware bank website dangers
- Compliance: More of an art than a science
- It may be time to dump your CRM system
- ChoicePoint pays $275,000 fine for data breach
- Google Dashboard reveals what it knows about you
Comments
Post new comment
Home
| Subscribe | Advertise | RSS |
Privacy
| Site MapTHE FIERCEMARKETS NETWORKFierceFinance | FierceFinanceIT | FierceComplianceIT | FierceHealthcare | FierceHealthFinance | FierceHealthIT | Hospital Impact | FierceMobileHealthcare | FierceCIO | FierceCIO:TechWatch | FierceContentManagement | FierceMobileIT | FierceGovernmentIT | FierceBiotech | FierceBiotech Research | FiercePharma | FierceVaccines | FierceBiotechIT | FiercePharma Manufacturing | FierceIPTV | FierceOnlineVideo | FierceTelecom | FierceVoIP | FierceBroadbandWireless | FierceDeveloper | FierceMobileContent | FierceWireless | FierceWireless:Europe | FierceCable© 2010 FierceMarkets. All rights reserved. |
![]() |






