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DMARC: End of Spam and Phishing for Good? Maybe, But Proof-of-Concept Still Needed

It was recently announced back in March of 2011 that the DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) organization, consisting of AOL, Facebook, Cloudmark, Linkedin, Band of America, PayPal and other leading organizations, proposed a new operational specification for the current email authentication infrastructure. In short,...

Operation Megaupload: Are Companies and Organizations Negligent with Today's Cyber Threats?

Recently, an online retail store called Zappos experienced an enormous cyber attack on January 16, 2012. A data breach occurred resulting in loss (or compromise) of twenty-four million customer names, e-mails, physical addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of credit card numbers. Although the incident only caused minimum monetary damage...

Business expansion and transformation process also in the mid-market

One of the main topics ICT providers are focusing on regards to transformation processes many enterprises are passing through. These transformations and growth engagements are main drivers to many corporations in acquiring technology such as business analytics solutions, cloud computing, collaboration tools, among others.  Nevertheless, this transf...

New Opportunities for IT Companies in Chile

When we analyse the IT market in Latin America it is very interesting to observe how each country behaves and presents different opportunities from one another. Recently, Frost & Sullivan had the chance to talk with Carlos Fernandez, Chile-IT CEO, about the industry in the country. Chile-IT is a government-backed association whose members are some ...

HP also focusing on Tablets and Smartphones

Last week, Fernando Belfort, F&S ICT Industry Analyst had the opportunity to participate in the HP 2011 Analyst Summit in San Francisco. The 2011 HP Analyst Summit was mainly focused in the company's growth drivers for the short and medium-term. Some of the highlights of the event included:  - Cloud Computing; - Vertical Solutions for Healthcare, T...

Alestra to become a strong ICT player in Mexico

Last week I had the opportunity to participate at the Alestra Business Technology Summit 2011 in Mexico City. Alestra is a known ICT provider in Mexico that is strongly working to position itself not only as a telecom provider but as an IT service market participant.  This event was a great opportunity to verify Alestra’s engagement to become a rel...

Latin America as a key market to NCR

Recently, I had the opportunity to meet with Mr. Elias Rogério da Silva, Brazilian president of NCR, one of the global leaders in the automated teller machines market. Due to the saturation of this market on developed economies such as North America and Europe, NCR is strongly focusing on emerging economies such as Latin America where there is stil...

ICT predictions for Latin America in 2011

As the year starts, new predictions and expectations are set. With Brazil positioning itself as one of the fastest growing global economies, many enterprises within the ICT sector have their focus geared towards the Latin American region. Due to this reason, yesterday I just wrote an interesting article published at my blog page at ITWeb, an import...

NFC - Near Future Concerns

Wave a wand and the doors will open.Assuming you have the right software in the wand, enough credit, the wand is a Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile handset and the doors are subway entrance gates.Also, assuming that a commercial system is in place.Far? Possibly. Far fetched? Not quite, with more than a hundred pilot projects conducted across t...

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