As I waded through my list of RSS feeds on the plane. . .I have to admit that I had fallen behind in some reading. . .I happened upon a previously flagged post by Bruce Cundiff of Javelin Strategy.  The post, which is located here, is a discussion of whether commerce specific biometrics have failed [...]

Last evening, 60 minutes ran a report on the TJX breach entitled "Hi-Tech Heist: How Hi-Tech Thieves Stole Millions of Customer Financial Records."  If you haven’t yet had an opportunity to view, the video it can be found here.  Go ahead, and watch, I will wait for you to come back. Back?  Beauty. As is [...]

Now that I am back in town from traveling, I am going to take a quick detour from my experiences at BAI and speak about security.  (As I said in an earlier post, an extremely important theme for those of us in the worlds of commerce.) Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with [...]

Several of us from IP Commerce are attending the BAI Retail Delivery conference in Vegas this week. . . Over the next few days, and in somewhat more digestible chunks, I will blog about technology that I have found impressive from the show floor.  For example, Microsoft is showing an impressive Silverlight application for online [...]

Security surveys show 90% of customers say they blame their retailer, and 20% say they will take their business elsewhere if the data is compromised regardless of who is to blame. It is no wonder that retailers cannot afford to use application vendors and integrators that do not take security as their highest priority. – [...]