The 5th edition of CyberSource’s UK Online Fraud Report 2009 has just been made available.

Download a copy now, courtesy of CyberSource, one of Salmon’s key eCommerce technology partners.

This comprehensive guide to UK Online Fraud includes information on:

• Most popular fraud management tools
• Most common fraud exploits
• Consumers and their online security fears
• Protecting profits
• Best practice advice from industry veteran, Dr Akif Khan

Plus much, much more…

The report also contains views and data from over 150 online merchants and 1000 consumers.

Today, Salmon announced the achievement of Gold Partner Certified status in Microsoft’s partnership programme.  In just twelve months, our Microsoft presence has grown from scratch into a mature practice, complementing our continuing desire to offer our customers choice; and a clear link between I.T. investment and the delivery of measurable business value.

Our solution development with Microsoft will predominantly be in the UK’s insurance and retail sectors.  In fact, we are already helping businesses in insurance increase revenue by improving customer satisfaction and employee productivity while reducing overall operational costs.

Microsoft’s Gold Certified Status recognises both Salmon’s technical expertise and the impact the company has made in solution development leveraging core areas of the Microsoft product portfolio; notably Security, Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), Business Process Integration and Information Worker solutions.

Gold status is the highest accolade in the Microsoft programme.

Salmon is also a Premier IBM Partner and holds partnerships and affiliations with a number of other leading ISVs.  There is a full list here.  The Microsoft practice is headed by Andrew Smith.