Consultants are the advisors, gatekeepers, interpreters, data collectors and information processors to the pension fund community.

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More than half the time, Krux found that data collectors were piggybacking on each other.

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Because the original deployments of IDS were just passive data collectors there was no impact on network performance from adding new signatures so the data base grew and grew and the logs IDS generated grew and grew to the point where even a mid-size organization would receive millions of alerts a day.

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The data on costs will be provided to tax collectors as well as to the taxpayers.

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So rather than steal identities wallet by wallet, or computer by computer, they lift names and Social Security numbers by the dozens, or the hundreds, or the thousands, often with the help of corrupt insiders with access to personal data, including tax preparers, health care billing clerks, state employees and debt collectors.

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