By Eric Schoeniger Fraud plagues business and government at a cost of billions of dollars each year.
Data mining offers a powerful antidote.
When most people think about protecting business technology today, they think of things like firewalls and digital signatures. But there's another security threat lurking, more dangerous because it's more insidious. It can range from falsifying expense reports to stealing credit card numbers. And it can hit businesses from telecommunications to stock exchanges, from credit card issuers to insurance companies, and from retailers to government agencies. Fraud has always been a risk of doing business.