So, did anyone read about the President's Cybersecurity Action Plan? I'm assuming you've read through all 10 points. You didn't stop to ponder after the first few did you? I mean, you didn't happen to stop after number 8? The one about the incident response plan?
Electronic communication is at the heart of every organization, but one compromised e-mail can damage your corporate brand, compromise intellectual property or put you in non-compliance with laws and industry regulations. Privacy concerns, regulatory compliance, and corporate guidelines all need to be factored into...
The announcement by Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) that it will offer its merchants end-to-end encryption capabilities is seen as a positive step by industry experts. Yet, these same experts also warn that this measure will not solve all of the security issues that Heartland and other payment processors face from...
Verizon Business investigated 90 major data breaches in 2008, including 285 million compromised records. Nearly ¾ of those breaches were external hacks, and 99.9 percent of the records were compromised via servers and applications.
These are among the findings of Verizon's new 2009 Data Breach Investigations...
And so it begins ...
As this morning dawns on San Francisco, so begins the 2009 edition of the RSA Conference.
As anyone in information security can tell you, this is the Mardi Gras, the Super Bowl, the event in the industry. It's where security professionals from all walks of the public and private sectors come...
From the Heartland data breach to the new Massachusetts data protection law, privacy is the hot topic in business and government.
In an exclusive interview, Peter Kosmala, assistant director of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), discusses:
The top privacy topics in business and...
"Knowledge is the currency of the future," says Sidney Pearl, Global Director of Enterprise Security Solution management for the Unisys Global Financial Services business.
And according to the latest Unisys Security Index, Americans are getting much smarter - and more demanding - about the basic information...
The "security bar" has to be raised on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and it has to happen now.
This was the message last week from the head of a Congressional subcommittee that conducted a hearing on PCI DSS. And it's a message that is drawing mixed reactions from financial services...
When is an outsider really an insider? That is the question every financial institution has to answer when reconciling security issues and the use of third-party service providers.
At Central Bank, Lexington, KY, Chris Schum, IT Security Manager, Technology Services, says the bank uses port lockdown software to...
A U.S. District Court judge will decide in the next few days whether the Hannaford Bros. data breach class action suit will go to trial.
Judge D. Brock Hornby heard final arguments on April 1 in the U.S. District Court, Portland, ME on the class action suit brought against the supermarket chain that had a data...
Irrespective of the state you operate in, this privacy law is applicable to any business extending credit to, or processing or storing data on customers in Massachusetts...
UPDATED IN FEB. 2010: Now that the Massachusetts "Standards for the Protection of Personal Information" is in effect, it may well be the...
"Knowledge is the currency of the future," says Sidney Pearl, Global Director of Enterprise Security Solution management for the Unisys Global Financial Services business.
And according to the latest Unisys Security Index, Americans are getting much smarter - and more demanding - about the basic information...
Data privacy legislation -- the trend started in California and is being discussed heatedly in Massachusetts today. Data breach notification and privacy laws have now been enacted in 40 separate states, and government observers think we're close to seeing federal legislation proposed.
In an exclusive interview,...
In the wake of the Heartland Payment Systems data breach, a new study shows that a majority of U.S. businesses, including financial institutions, are under continued attack via payments fraud.
Economic conditions and the growth of electronic payments have opened up new opportunities for payment fraud, according to...
From the Heartland data breach to the new Massachusetts data protection law, privacy is the hot topic in business and government.
In an exclusive interview, Peter Kosmala, assistant director of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), discusses:
The top privacy topics in business and...
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