...front and back office. Typically, organisations that administer symbologies - such as Reuters' RIC codes, Markit's REDdatabase and S&P-administered Cusip datasets - assert proprietary rights over their identifiers, impose significant limitations...
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The SANS Institute, offering computer security training for system administrators, computer security professionals, and network administrators, is a cooperative research and education organization that has many consensus projects to return computer security information to the community.
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