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     Employee Fraud, Theft Cost Firms $40 Billion Yearly
     Mumbai Hotels Rethink Security After Attack
     Virtualization To Put Consumer Tech In The Workplace
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Employee Fraud, Theft Cost Firms $40 Billion Yearly
As many as one-third of all business failures annually can be attributed to employee theft, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The cost of theft and fraud to American business nationally hovers around $40 billion a year, and "some experts believe as much as 40 percent of the losses are internal," said Tim Zehring, a retired Mesa police officer and director of the International Crime Free Association.

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Mumbai Hotels Rethink Security After Attack
Mumbai, India recently sustained a 60-hour rampage by Islamic militants claiming 171 lives.

The terror attacks Nov. 26-29 dealt a further blow to India's business-travel industry, which has been suffering from the global economic slowdown for months. As corporate travelers limp back, they are asking tough questions about security, demanding that high-profile hotels prove they have measures in place to deflect violence.

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Virtualization To Put Consumer Tech In The Workplace
Virtualization promises to usher in a new era of consumer technology in the workplace—potentially satisfying the demands of new workers from the Facebook generation who want to use more consumer hardware for work purposes.

According to ZDNet News, companies are expected to increasingly roll out technology to implement “sandboxed” virtual machines on staff's personal laptops and mobile devices, allowing workers to choose the hardware they use to do their job, while keeping corporate data safe.

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Business Beat

  • Panda Security, a provider of IT security solutions, has renewed its Microsoft Partner certification for another year for Panda Managed Office Protection by passing the "Platform Test for Hosted Solutions" test.

  • Serco Group plc has completed the acquisition of SI International Inc., a provider of information services, technology and network solutions to the U.S. government.
People in the News

  • Becker Avionics Inc., a company that develops, manufactures and distributes communications, navigation, surveillance and search and rescue equipment, has appointed Markus Schmitz as vice president of strategy and business development.


  • Red Condor, a provider of fully-managed e-mail security solutions, has appointed Kip Quackenbush as vice president of sales.


  • Henry Bros. Electronics Inc., a provider of technology-based integrated electronic security solutions, has named Richard D. Rockwell vice chairman of the company's Board of Directors and has joined the company's Executive Committee as chairman.


  • Veracode Inc., provider of an application security assessment service, has appointed Jon Stevenson as the company's senior vice president of technology and service operations.
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