The latest trends, market research and analysis, on handheld PCs, smartphones, and the mobile payment market from KPMG. 

Effective Desktop Management begins with knowing what you have to manage. 

Health care facilities rely on scanning tools for their paper-based health records and medical imaging. Download the free trial of this desktop scanner connectivity solution, offering stable, secure and seamless image acquisition in hosted environments. 

The definition of a mobile payment is often open to interpretation and can differ from source to source.    Juniper Research has a simple definition of a mobile payment as “payment for goods or services with a mobile device such as a phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device.” 

Bonus payments have long been a feature of the reward package for most IT professionals, but when the UKeconomy went into freefall during late 2008, many employers either reduced such payments or did away withthem altogether. 

Juniper Research defines mobile banking as  “the provision of banking services to customers on their mobile devices”: specifically we mean in the vast majority of instances “the operation of bank current and deposit or savings accounts”. 

This white paper highlights a vulnerability management system with a cohesive framework offering comprehensive asset discovery, vulnerability scanning and flexible reporting and remediation. 

IT administrators estimate that close to half of all corporate data is held on employee laptops. However, data on laptops are normally the least protected corporate asset. To solve this, PeerSync provides centralized IT control for laptop backup. Download this trial software to experience this data solution. 

This technical guide, brought to you by SearchSecurity.com offers a global perspective on the various technologies available for organizations to meet the stringent requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). View now to explore PCI DSS guidance for encryption, tokenization and virtualization technologies. 

This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital? 

Access this month’s issue to uncover the latest tokenization trends (including, payment card data security, tokenization as a service, as well as protecting PII data) and explore how this revived technology not only offers enhanced data protection, but can ease the burden of compliance audits. 

This paper discusses how protecting cardholder data is a critical and mandatory requirement for all organizations that process, store or transmit information on credit or debit cards and the requirements and guidelines for securing cardholder data are specified in the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS).