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By Kevin Moore, Infoglide Software Director of Fraud Solution Sales Several years ago, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published guidelines for creating fusion centers at the state, local, and federal levels. Since then, fusion centers have become a hot trend in the law enforcement community.  At last count, there were 72 designated centers around [...]

By Mike Shultz, Infoglide Software CEO It’s been quite awhile since we’ve addressed the challenge of balancing security and privacy. As authors of the software used more times every day than all other identity resolution software combined (video: Who Is Infoglide Software?), we are extremely conscious of how critical it is to strike a balance [...]

By Infoglide Software CEO Mike Shultz A recent post on McClatchy’s blog attributes growing insurance fraud to the recession: A recent survey of 37 state insurance-fraud bureaus by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud found that the recession “appears to have had a significant impact on the incidence of fraud” last year. On average, the bureaus [...]

By Mike Shultz, Infoglide Software CEO In March 2006, the Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA) estimated that annual global fraud losses in the telecom sector were between $54 billion and $60 billion, and the losses continue to be substantial. Many types of fraud have been identified, but by far the most prevalent is subscription fraud. [...]

By Mike Shultz, Infoglide Software CEO We’ve noted several times over the past couple of years how the market visibility of entity resolution has been evolving. Now the consolidation of the master data management (MDM) market is causing even more conjecture about the crucial role of this technology. We’re continually on the lookout for the [...]

By Douglas Wood, Infoglide Senior Vice President Much is happening these days in the Data Quality space.  Customers are embracing MDM strategies at a record pace, M&A activity has picked up from an industry perspective, and the various players in the data quality marketplace are expanding their offerings like never before.  It matters little if [...]

By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior VP & Chief Marketing Officer Fresh out of grad school, I initiated a career in software development by writing software for state agencies. Although I migrated to work for software companies several years later, lessons learned in those beginning years were a great platform for later challenges. Significant opportunities to [...]

By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior VP & Chief Marketing Officer Identity resolution is a vital technology for law enforcement fusion centers, and we’ve often followed developments with links to stories in this area. When overlapping and adjacent jurisdictions share data with each other, uncovering hidden identities and linkages greatly accelerates the detection of criminal activity. [...]

By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior VP & Chief Marketing Officer The European Union recently started a five-year research program in conjunction with its expanding role in fighting crime and terrorism. The purpose of Project Indect is to develop advanced analytics that help monitor human activity for “automatic detection of threats and abnormal behaviour and violence.” [...]

By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior VP & Chief Marketing Officer A continual theme at IdentityResolutionDaily is maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of data at all times. Two recent posts concerned fusion centers and citizen profiling, but the same issues apply to virtually any application of entity resolution technology. The fact is that, in some cases, [...]