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Survivors Demonstrate How to Endure Disasters

Unlike other items in their IT budgets, corporations spend money on disaster-recovery planning in hopes that it will be wasted. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s not. The most extreme examples of disaster

The Baseline Security Hall of Shame

The credit records of 3.9 million Citigroup customers disappeared after United Parcel Service lost a box of backup tapes. The card numbers of 40 million MasterCard, Visa, American Express and

UPS Loses Financial Records, But Has a Bigger Problem

The United Parcel Service invests more than $1 billion a year on technology—smart labels, wireless handheld computers for drivers and efficient delivery plans—to help its customers ship packages. But it

June 2005 Online Extras

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ChoicePoint: Blur

Among his alleged crimes: child molestation and rape. Calderon tried to protest his innocence. He told his captors that his Social Security number and birth certificate had been stolen nine

The Rising Threat from Bad Data

Steven Calderon had a clean record, a clean conscience and no reason to think that his new employer’s routine background check would cause any problem at all. Then the sheriff

Project Map: Data Cleansing

Your database may be full of valuable information, but it’s difficult to realize this value if your data is incomplete, inconsistently formatted, inaccurate or unreadable by your applications. Data cleansing

Acquired Taste

Ameritrade chief executive Joe Moglia had a clear choice after E*Trade offered $5.7 billion to buy his Omaha, Neb.-based online brokerage: Be the hunter or the hunted.Moglia is choosing to

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