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May 17, 2012
New York Times Bits Blog: Silicon Valley's Lust for High-End Bikes
With the popularity of cycling growing amongst Silicon Valley's elite, so has their desire for top-of-the-line bikes and accessories.

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May 17, 2012
New York Times: Timothy Eades Profiled on Cycling in Silicon Valley
Silver Tail Systems CEO, Timothy Eades, is profiled on cycling in Silicon Valley and the sport's growing popularity.

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May 15, 2012
Fast Company: Dr. Laura Mather included as #16 on list of “Most Creative People in Business 2012"
How To Think Like Your Enemy

Here's Laura Mather's own answer to an interview question she poses to job applicants at her website security firm (which works with ING Direct and StubHub, among others). Silver Tail Systems uniquely maps all users' behavior at a site--then spots the crooks.


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May 08, 2012
Bank Technology News: Silver Tail Systems' Parameter Injection technology named "Most Useful Product" at the spring Finovate
Best of Finovate Spring Day 1

Finovate, the "speed dating" arena of sorts where startup and established financial technology vendors show their latest wares under a strict time limit of seven minutes each, had a good day today, with an attendance of 1,200 (up from 800 last year). The format — back-to-back demos demos broken up by a couple of intermissions and lunch — is livelier than it may sound. There's always the chance that a presenter will be gonged for slipping past the time limit (only one did today). The quick changes of personality types and topics keeps the audience's attention.


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May 07, 2012
TechRepublic: How user-behavior monitoring helps reduce risk
How user-behavior monitoring helps reduce risk

Dominic Vogel asks a researcher and a vendor to explain what behavioral monitoring adds to an organization’s security strategy.

My previous blog article, “Putting Passwords out to Pasture: Identity behaviour vs. Identity authentication,” I made the argument that corporate security teams needed to put more focus on behavioral monitoring at the user level (in addition to the network, system, and application layers). More and more security practitioners are realizing that 100% prevention is simply no longer achievable. There needs to be equal (if not more) focus on early detection, and rapid response to abnormal behaviour.


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