IBM Privacy Institute. (Security Notes).IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) have formed the IBM Privacy Institute and the Privacy Management Council to focus exclusively on privacy and data protection challenges facing its enterprise customers and the marketplace. The Privacy Institute is the industry's first formal technology research effort focused on developing privacy-enabling and data protection technologies for businesses. The Privacy Management Council, consisting of participants from select public and private institutions, will use the expertise of privacy and security leaders across finance, health care, government, travel and other key industry segments. Members will work with IBM to address emerging privacy needs, and define next-generation Tivoli Tivoli (tē`vōlē), Lat. Tibur, city (1991 pop. 52,372), in Latium, central Italy, on the Aniene River. An important tourist center, the city is beautifully situated on a terrace dominating nearby Rome and the plain to the sea. privacy management software. The two initiatives are intended to accelerate new innovations in privacy-enabling technologies through a laboratory-to-marketplace effort devoted to mapping out new ways to manage personally identifiable information In information security and privacy, personally identifiable information or personally identifying information (PII) is any piece of information which can potentially be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person. across an enterprise environment. The IBM Privacy Institute, under the direction of Dr. Michael Michael, archangel Michael (mī`kəl) [Heb.,=who is like God?], archangel prominent in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions. In the Bible and early Jewish literature, Michael is one of the angels of God's presence. Waidner, institute executive, will conduct research in IBM's eight research laboratories around the world, sponsoring a series of workshops and other events for the business, academic, and research communities. www.ibm.com |
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