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Tax and Revenue Management: A government’s lifeblood
IT has provided the opportunities for governments to remodel the entire process of tax collection over the last decade. It is, however, a continuously evolving process and governments the world over need to constantly upgrade their tax systems to optimise their revenue workflows.
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The advent of social media has seen governments hopping onto the bandwagon in a bid to further engage citizens.
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Companies expand alliance to advance information security
EMC and Microsoft Corp. are expanding their technology partnership to help companies better protect sensitive information and share it in a more secure manner. The companies will be working together with a built-in “systems” approach that helps protect information throughout the infrastructure based on content, context and identity.
The partnership will take advantage of the resources and technology from Microsoft and EMC’s RSA Security Division. Microsoft will build the RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) classification technology into the Microsoft platform and future information protection products.
This collaboration intends to enable organisations to define information security policy and classify sensitive data at a central point virtually anywhere in the infrastructure. Customers will also be able to use a range of controls to protect data at the endpoints, network and the data centre. In the near future, RSA’s DLP Suite 6.5 will be integrated tightly with Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS) within Windows Server 2008.
Enterprises today face a growing risk of data leaks and increasing pressure to keep data secure. But on the other hand, employees, partners, customers and vendors must have access to certain business information within and across company boundaries.
“Companies continue to struggle to protect sensitive data across the enterprise,” said Christopher Young Senior Vice President of RSA. “Point solutions require that multiple policies and technologies be stitched together and independently managed, which is costly and complex.”
The two companies’ new approach is meant to help customers address their information security problems with fewer point tools to buy and juggle. By building DLP classification technology into Microsoft products, the infrastructure hopes to become content-aware so that customers can manage their security policies anywhere and anytime based on user identity.
Microsoft itself uses RSA DLP Suite for management of its payment and customer data and intellectual property in its own files and Microsoft SharePoint sites. The company has chosen to work with EMC based on its accuracy and scalability and the wide array of its policies.
“Our expanded partnership with EMC’s RSA Security Division is centred on dramatically lowering the cost and complexity of information protection while allowing customers to take full advantage of perhaps their greatest asset: their information. The approach is about built-in solutions, versus bolted-on,” said Douglas Leland General Manager of the Identity and Security Business Group at Microsoft.
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