Cryptography is the study of “mathematical” systems involving two kinds of security problems: privacy and authentication. A privacy system prevents the extraction information by unauthorized parties from messages transmitted over a public channel, thus assuring the sender of a message that it is being read only by the intended recipient.
We stand today on the brink [...]

You’ve been here before: You walk into an important meeting, where the objective is to make a significant business decision — Do we expand into Asia Pacific?, for example. But there’s simply not enough hard data in the room to make an informed choice. People start arguing about their feelings and their propensities, but not [...]

Today’s email marketers must navigate their way through a complicated landscape of shifting customer expectations, challenging new technologies, evolving government regulations and other issues old-school direct marketers never had to face.
The 5 basic principles are:
3. Clean and analyze mailing lists: A “dirty” list – one with too many unsolicited, incorrect, out-of-date or duplicated addresses – [...]

It’s a well known fact that the ‘information business’ is the largest (and most profitable) online market in the world… and is likely to remain that way for many years to come.
That’s why Apple can sell over a quarter of a  million iPads in 24 hours… It’s why Google  performs over a quarter of a [...]

Data security breaches are becoming increasingly expensive for organizations, and a variety of industry analysts agree that the costs of such incidents will continue to rise for the foreseeable future. This cost increase is in direct correlation with the ever expanded legislative rulings that require extensive notifications and fines should a data breach occur.

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