A consistent security policy for all divisions and subsidiaries is established by a central information security group. It is just as important to provide information on who penetrated our security, and what they did, as it is to provide measures to prevent penetration. While we want to know who attempted to penetrate our security, we need to be able to backtrack as well. George Bateman Directory of Technology American Express American Express remote user configuration At American Express, work is being performed to develop profiles of each user to enable the company to flag any activity that is out of the ordinary. Additionally, by collecting all possible information, including user and caller IDs, a much greater assurance of correct identity can be obtained.
Customers can pay bills online using a bank account of choice.
Customers can also use a Web browser for online investing and for purchasing airline tickets. The Java language enables small applications, called applets, to be downloaded to user systems. The user can execute downloaded applets either directly or through a browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. Since the Java language has been implemented on a large and growing number of platforms, tremendous portability is achieved by writing applications in Java. While the ability to download Java applets offers tremendous capabilities, these characteristics at first sight might appear to make client systems vulnerable to viruses and tampering.