Keeping active with IDOL
Autonomy has launched IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search with Active Folders, which brings together a wide variety of information ranging from office documents, e-mail, Web sites, news and multimedia content from multiple locations including corporate networks, the Web, the desktop and local data sources. Autonomy says its new offering is the first integrated tool that uses implicit query, working proactively with users on the corporate desktop to understand the information they require and bring it straight to them at the right time and in the right context.
The company says that by using contextual matching, Active Folders understand the themes within any set of data and then automatically populate the folder with related information, regardless of its storage location, as soon as it becomes available.
For example, explains Autonomy, lab workers in a large pharmaceutical company can use Active Folders in order to stay in touch with any information that could influence drug development--anything that is conceptually related to a particular drug development either within the corporate intranet such as lab reports, data from patient trials or from research communities or news sources that publish on the Web.
Autonomy also reports its Aungate (aungate.com) division, which specializes in compliance, litigation and risk technology, has launched an anti-phishing module for its compliance solution. The new Phishing Detection Module is designed to be used by banks and other financial services institutions to detect and prevent malicious attempts to defraud customers using online banking services.
The module detects phishing attempts by monitoring text, picture and broadcast content, automatically understanding the content and cross-referencing a range of Internet sources in order to alert the enterprise in real time of fraudulent attempts to extort money, says Aungate.
Phishing is increasingly used to prey on and extort money from vulnerable computer users who use online banking facilities. Those scams come in a variety of forms and are evolving regularly, such as e-mails that provide a link to a fraudulent site, inviting the recipient to enter personal details. They also pose a significant risk to large financial institutions by seriously compromising the credibility of their security precautions.