Defending against threats to information.(Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)

Financial Update | April 1, 2005 | Copyright

Today the Federal Reserve, like the rest of the world, spins on information technology (IT). As so many workers do nowadays, many Fed staff use computers and e-mail and access the Internet every workday. But the Fed's use of IT goes beyond so-called office automation and extends to the way it conducts its core businesses. On any given day, an economist might use a special high-capacity personal computer to run a huge data set through a complex econometric model. A bank examiner might scrutinize a large financial holding company's mathematical risk assessment model for a new ...

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