Digital expansion.Accounting firm Ernst & Young is expanding from its current sector--in which it provides auditing, tax reporting, tax advisory and business risk services--to technology and security risk services. The Los Angeles-based division, run by Ernst & Young principal Kevin Moncrief, has identified the top five tech security threats for businesses: uncontrolled wireless networks; the increased use of collaboration technologies; increased database security requirements, which can result in the loss of private or confidential data; the increased need for digital identities; and the expanded use of service-oriented architectures See SOA. and/or grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal . The 46-year-old Moncrief comes from the Midwest with an unusual security background. He was a military policeman policeman /po·lice·man/ (pah-les´min) a glass rod with a piece of rubber tubing on one end, used as a stirring rod and transfer tool in chemical analysis. po·lice·man n. for the U.S. Army's 69th Infantry infantry, body of soldiers who fight in an army on foot and are equipped with hand-carried weapons, in contradistinction originally to cavalry and other branches of an army. Brigade in Topeka, Kan. |
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