Responding to the growing threat of identity theft. Identity
theft is the fastest-growing crime in the world, and while it is
commonly thought of as a mostly petty crime involving stolen
personal credit cards or social security numbers, it is now
becoming a larger threat to governments and corporations.
Multiple Web sites offering fake driver’s licenses and social
security cards for as little as $75, paired with identity
theft’s increased ties to organized crime, have made it a vital
homeland security issue. According to Ali M. AlKhouri, a final-
year doctoral researcher at the University of Warwick and a
senior government official in the United Arab Emirates, and Jay
Bal, an associate professor, principal research fellow in the
International Manufacturing Centre and director of the InterLean
Ebusiness Centre at the University of Warwick, an increasing
emphasis on e-commerce and e-government means that organizations
are under major threat to not only protect their customers but
their own sensitive and propriet