AVON, Conn. - COCC has combined its anti-fraud and securitysoftware and services into a solution the core processor callsSentry Services. Using internal and external resources, the fraudprotection suite will focus on three areas - assessment, preventionand education - to help the company's 140 clients, about 40 of themcredit unions, avoid creating "new information silos" that canisolate potentially vulnerable areas from the attention they need,the client-owned company says. "With fraud solutions proliferatingthroughout the industry, we believe that financial institutionswill benefit most from a holistic anti-fraud solution suite thatoptimizes efficiency and effectiveness," said Wendy DeMore, firstvice president of product management at COCC (www.cocc.com.)Packaging the growing number of anti-fraud and security solutions -from anti-money laundering screens to Internet intrusion detection- this way also will help COCC focus its continuing efforts, DeMoresays. Approximately 18% of COCC's research and development budgethas been allocated to Sentry Services.