EMC Global Services has created an accelerated process designed to help businesses meet the deadline to comply with FACTA Red Flags guidelines. This new program includes: Risk Assessment: Determines how FACTA impacts an organization from a regulatory view and identifies what parts of the organization have the greate st exposure to identity theft; FACTA Policies and Procedures: Brings existing fraud, privacy and customer identification procedures together and models changes to account opening processes, authentication checking, transaction monitoring and the reporting of discrepancies back to the consumer reporting agencies; Roadmap and Requirements: Helps identify and socialize the needs of the business using a 'current state to future state' roadmap and detailed business requirement documentation; Technology Design and Deployment of Red Flags Detection Software: Automates the business requirements across multiple customer channels; Identity Theft Prevention Reporting: Includes metrics that measure the effectiveness of an organization's mitigation program and provides summary reports to the customer's management team and Board of Directors; Integration: Utilizes third-party customer reporting agency data within existing front- and back-office systems to prevent and detect identity theft; Program Management Office: Helps clients establish and maintain a management office for the FACTA program; and Quality Assurance: Provides evidence that FACTA business requirements and controls are implemented and performing effectively More information can be found at www.EMC.com.