Enabling business through Internet technologies

The Alnpete Consultancy provides a wide range of skills to clients. The underlying theme though, is the enablement of new and enhanced business models through the use of Internet technologies and electronic commerce. This is built on a deep, long-term and abiding understanding of the Internet, as well as the security, trust and quality mechanisms which are essential to assure online services. This combination of technological and commercial expertise makes Alnpete invaluable to businesses who wish to prosper in the brave new wired world.

Alnpete provided business and technical consultancy on behalf of NatWest Group Security Services for a number of projects around the NatWest Group for over three and a half years years. Foremost among these was the development of strategy for the Group Public Key Infrastructure (PKI); design of security mechanisms, including the use of the Group PKI, for online services; security risk assessments of various services especially e–commerce, online banking and those using new delivery channels such as WAP and new technology such as MetaTrust; and evaluation of tokens for use as authentication devices in online services. Alnpete was retained by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group following their take-over of NatWest to continue to provide consultancy to the Group Information Security department for a year and a half, especially on security aspects of the integration of mobile and online banking services.

Alnpete was retained by Barclays' Group Technology Office to perform a variety of security assessments around the Barclays Group, including conducting a high-level IT Security risk and threat assessment at Barclaycard; reviewing threats and countermeasures for Internet applications at Barclays UK Banking; assessing proposed fraud prevention technologies across various Barclays services.

Alnpete was retained by APACS to perform a feasibility study relating to authentication of online banking customers, for the APACS Electronic Commerce Group. Since then we have provided further consultancy to APACS in a variety of e–commerce and security related areas.

Alnpete has provided consultancy (in conjunction with InterNetworking Strategies Limited) on WAP security to Abbey National; network security to BACS; and authentication to Barclays.

Alnpete has provided consultancy (in conjunction with Symbiotic Consulting Services Limited) on the effective use and management of PKI for securing financial services at Nationwide Building Society; on PKI and its crucial rôle in the inspection of ePassports for 3MRT.

Alnpete has provided consultancy (in conjunction with TemporalS Limited) on PKI and its rôle in ePassport production to De La Rue and various governments; on the use of PKI in the inspection of ePassports to help TemporalS develop their own products.

Alnpete has provided technical and security consultancy to reputational risk strategy in the development and application of a reputational risk management methodology and its implementation in a software tool; as well as consultancy to their clients in the assessment of reputational risk.

 

See also...

Security

Quality

 

Alnpete has provided consultancy services to clients as wide-ranging as a City investment management company, an astronomical retailer, a security service provider, three major banking groups, various financial service providers, an online rights management service operator, a security testing laboratory, various specialist consultancies and other world-class blue-chip clients.

 

Resources...

Structured Security Risk Assessment
Alnpete Briefing Note

Reputational Risk Management
methodology by r-r-s

Links...

NatWest

RBS Group

Barclays Group

APACS

Abbey National

Nationwide Building Society