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5 Most Popular Forms of Identity Theft

When you think of identity theft, the first thing that comes to mind is credit card theft. Unfortunately there are other forms of identity theft that everyone should know about. Having an understanding of the different forms of identity theft will help you better prepare for situations if they just so happen to arise.

Medical Theft Identity

It might be a shocking thing to know but there are people who are using other people's identity to latch on to their medical records. The people who tend to do this sort of identity theft are people who live higher risked lifestyles and aren't willing to use their own identity. Medical Identity theft is a serious issue and can create a world wind of mess when it comes to your medical history that may not serve to be true.

Social Security Number Theft

Social security number theft is one of the easiest forms of theft rolling around. People don't realize that many documents that are signed by you, usually ask for your social security number. As time changes, this seems to become a mandatory piece of information. Putting your social security number of documents that ask for them puts you at a high risk for identity theft. If you can avoid inserting your social security number on any form of documentation, then it is advisable you do so. Unless it is justified why it is needed, you should avoid giving your social security number.

Criminal Identity Theft

This form of identity theft isn't a fun experience for anyone. Criminals have honed a skill that allows for them to take on another person's identity when it comes to doing a crime. There have been people who have been led to the police department under false accusations due to someone else taking their identity. If you find yourself involved in such a serious identity theft crime, make sure that you hire on the right team of people who can unravel the mess that is made due to criminal identity theft.

Credit Card Theft

No matter how the pie is sliced, if you own a credit card of any kind, you run the risk of having your identity stolen. Think about all of the times you give your card away to a waitress. If you aren't near your card there is a likely chance that you could have your card information stolen. Most people who take your credit card information, sell the number to someone else. So finding out who stole it in the first place can be a difficult thing to do. It's highly advisable that you pay with cash in places where you would have to disconnect with your credit card. You would have better control of the situation.


Drivers License Theft

This theft isn't as big as the others but it is still a factor in identity theft. Various people have had their share of pull-overs. These pull-overs have led to them being arrested due to a warrant. Unfortunately they didn't commit any traffic violations under their own name. Someone stole their driver license information and used it when they were stopped for a violation. It's important that you keep your drivers license near you at all times.

Author’s Bio: Emma Gomes, a well known writer is known for writing articles on security issues. Visit the website IdentityTheft.net for better knowledge.

Generic vs. Specialized Document Sharing in the Cloud

There has been a lot of buzz around the new entrant into the cloud-based document sharing space with the recent announcement of Google Drive. But not all cloud-based document sharing is the same. Specialized document sharing solutions address a fundamentally different set of business problems than a generic document sharing solution does.  So where do generic document sharing solutions end and specialized document sharing solutions begin?

Generic vs. Specialized?

Generic document sharing solutions started out to address personal file storage in the cloud.  By allowing individuals to put their personal pictures, videos and also documents in the cloud, they would be accessible from anywhere.  With the recent consumerization of IT, businesses quickly found that their employees were using personal solutions as business productivity tools – like sharing business documents with themselves.  Many generic document sharing solutions saw this as an opportunity to enter into the Enterprise Content Sharing space as a way of further monetizing their applications. But much of the functionality and infrastructure is geared towards document accessibility for lots and lots of documents and fails to deliver deeper business process-specific value.
This is where Specialized document sharing comes in. Specialized document sharing providers focus on solving business process specific problems such as how to run due diligence more effectively, gain control and visibility over governance and compliance processes in your organization or improve litigation support. Everything they invest in, from the features in their product to the people in their business, have this domain-specific knowledge.

If you take Firmex as an example, our products and services are geared around helping companies more effectively and successfully run financial transactions. Our Virtual Data Room and our Client Services team support thousands of deals a year. We specialize in being the best data room provider in the market.

With that said, we recently released an infographic using the launch of Google Drive as a means to illustrate the differences between generic and specialized document sharing offerings. We hope you'll find the information to be of value. It is available for viewing and download below.

If you'd like to learn more about how Firmex can support your specific business processes click here or click their contact us link.

Business Agility Can Be Improved through Information Security

Security has traditionally been viewed as a tradeoff with business productivity. It’s been this way for years. But it doesn’t have to be. CIOs and CISOs need to have their finger on the pulse of security and how it affects their business from a tactical and strategic perspective. Information security if practiced right shouldn’t slow down the business, but actually complement it and even improve business agility.

Read the rest of new article for Algosec.com here: http://blog.algosec.com/2012/07/4-ways-to-persuade-upper-management-that-business-agility-can-be-improved-through-information-securi.html

Information Security Spending is Disproportionate

There's 75% of attacks focused on the application layer with only 25% of spending focused on these attacks.

How SDN Will Shape Networking

Great video of Nick McKeown on OpenFlow/SDN and how it will shape networking as we know it.

BYOD Podcast with Algosec

Hey everyone - Sam Erdheim from Algosec (@Algosec) and I sit down to talk about BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and a few of the concerns and precautions that should be taken with this phenomenon.

Take a listen and let me know your opinion on BYOD: http://algosec.typepad.com/files/in-the-trenches.mp3