The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) reports than Canada spends $253.5 billion annually on health, and growing at above 4% per year. This is, by far, the largest cash dispensing industry in Canada, dwarfing defense spending (22 Billion). This post is about exogenous [outside the system] financial threats posed by predators. Frankly, no one …
Uniform Policing is Complex
Uniform public are among the first to arrive at the scene of social disturbances, violent crimes and catastrophic events. They must make time-sensitive judgments on their personal and the public’s safety, sometimes in fraction of a second, without the benefit of conversation. Mood influences perception of events. Like everyone, the uniform police officer’s brain is …
Good Security is More than the Illusion of Security
In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the downed hijacked airliner the U.S. Congress determined that some of the terrorists boarded commercial aircraft using fraudulently acquired state identification cards. They are issued by Departments of Motor Vehicles (DMVs) for people without driver’s licenses. As a consequence, the US …
Police Security Checks: Efficient, Profitable – but does it make us more secure?
If your organization does name checks against police records, be aware of the security trade-offs made. Police forces conduct name checks against police records as a paid public service. Names, dates of birth and sex are compared against local records, the records of other police services where former addresses in these jurisdictions are provided, and …
New Science and the Physical and Financial Harms Game
There is much discussion and recommendations made on linear controls to reduce predatory fraud attacks to benefits payment systems such as health care, and privileges such as drivers’ licenses – the de facto ID in most states and provinces. Ancillary to predatory fraud problems, there are similar limitations with recommendations made to control internal-to-systems misuse, …
Driver’s License as “ID” at Critical Infrastructure?
Most people are who they say they are. Just ask them and they will tell you. The question is whether demanding a driver’s license to prevent false personation and identity fraud actually make us more safe from those attempting to deceive us? It may be sufficient in some entities to accept a driver’s license as …
What You Should Know About Means of Identification
Since the mid 1990s much media attention is drawn to “identity theft” and what consumers can do to prevent victimization. It is rare that a clear distinction is drawn between theft (the supply) and unlawful use (the demand) for personal information. A lack of clarity at times creates confusion and underachieving counter strategies. Although the …
How Tranzform Security Can Help You Reduce Insurance Fraud
Health care spending accounts for 17.8% of GDP in the United States. In Canada total health care spending is reported to be 11% of GDP. The dispensing of health care uniquely depends of a healthy relationship between health care plan administrators and diagnosing physicians prescribing access to the benefits and services of the plan. In …
Design Thinking: a foundation for Business Innovation
Submitted by PBenedicto on Wed, 02/13/2013 – 22:09 “Innovate or Die” is a popular expression among thought leaders to describe the economic and cultural climate we now do business in. Technology’s impact on people and business continues to evolve the way we communicate, work and live at a disruptive pace. Businesses need to respond by …
Organizational Design from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age
Submitted by rroyer on Sun, 01/13/2013 – 22:59 As the Information Age continues to evolve at a rapid rate, businesses are finding it challenging to compete in their marketplace. New technologies, global markets, demanding customers, disengaged employees and aggressive competitors are placing unprecedented pressure on many companies, who must now rethink the way they do …
Can the Enterprise Strike Back?
Submitted by Martin Sumner-Smith on Fri, 10/12/2012 – 16:17 Most people have written-off Research in Motion (RIM) and their Blackberry platform. But then most people take a consumer’s perspective in making that assessment. RIM is making a play to its traditional strength – security. But it is considering security for both enterprises and consumers. Security …
Not all users are bad, but they may not be paying attention
Submitted by Martin Sumner-Smith on Fri, 02/10/2012 – 09:34 Yesterday, in the As the pendulum swings – Users vs. the Enterprise, I discussed how the balance between the needs of staff users and those of the enterprise that employs them has recently swung strongly to favor users as a result of consumerization.My perspective was that …
As the pendulum swings – Users vs. the Enterprise
Submitted by Martin Sumner-Smith on Wed, 02/08/2012 – 14:07 There have been two traditional enemies of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) adoption: Email Shared network folders/drives For most users in an enterprise (i.e. staff), it is simply easier to send a file to a colleague through email than it is to first deposit the file and …
Engaging Content. Whether to Embed or Link?
Submitted by Martin Sumner-Smith on Mon, 11/21/2011 – 14:44 Showing a collection of PowerPoint slides pulled from an OpenText Content Server was the subject of a recent post. At that time, I used presentations from our Content World Users’ conference of a year ago to show how a collection of related materials from a secure …
Video at Work – Video Services for Content Server
Submitted by Martin Sumner-Smith on Tue, 11/15/2011 – 12:33 I’m a big fan of video for work applications. It’s the best way to get information to staff quickly. As such I’ve been using the OpenText Video Service (OTVS) for some time. In fact, we recently developed a ‘Success Story’ about our own use of the …