IBM Unveils Online Privacy Management Service

Zardon · Oct 28, 2003, 07:35 PM

NEW YORK -- on Monday announced its entry into the enterprise privacy management space, rolling out a new service gives clients a simplified way of implementing privacy policies.

In partnership with privately held Watchfire, IBM said the new service would offer page scans of millions of Web pages to identify broken links, typographical errors and any other problem that could hurt a company's brand.

Targeted mostly to the financial services sector, Big Blue executives say the Online Business Management Services offering would also provide notifications and real-time monitoring of compliance with the range of regulatory requirements related to privacy and security.

At a press briefing here, IBM's chief privacy officer Harriet Pearson said the new offering would help large-scale enterprises, particularly banks that operate online, avoid the growing threat of identity theft.

As a customer of Watchfire, Person said IBM has found the service extremely useful to monitor more than 3 million Web pages under management globally. Even if Big Blue put together a staff of 1,000 to manually monitor each Web page, it would not be able to do a thorough job, Pearson explained.

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Oct 28, 2003, 07:35 PM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	IBM Unveils Online Privacy Management Service NEW YORK -- on Monday announced its entry into the enterprise privacy management space, rolling out a new service gives clients a simplified way of implementing privacy policies. In partnership with privately held Watchfire, IBM said the new service would offer page scans of millions of Web pages to identify broken links, typographical errors and any other problem that could hurt a company's brand. Targeted mostly to the financial services sector, Big Blue executives say the Online Business Management Services offering would also provide notifications and real-time monitoring of compliance with the range of regulatory requirements related to privacy and security. At a press briefing here, IBM's chief privacy officer Harriet Pearson said the new offering would help large-scale enterprises, particularly banks that operate online, avoid the growing threat of identity theft. As a customer of Watchfire, Person said IBM has found the service extremely useful to monitor more than 3 million Web pages under management globally. Even if Big Blue put together a staff of 1,000 to manually monitor each Web page, it would not be able to do a thorough job, Pearson explained. info here