Discussing Verizon's new report on the state of PCI compliance, PCI expert Jen Mack says payment card security today is "disappointing," and global merchants are at serious risk of new data breaches.
This white paper details solutions designed for government agencies that provide the visibility, control and automation needed to support asset management across the IT asset life cycle, planning, acquisition, management and disposition of software, hardware and related licenses.
The result is lower asset costs,...
Citigroup confirms that a breach of its online banking platform, Citi Account Online, may have exposed personally identifiable information about hundreds of thousands of Citi customers.
The increase in the availability and quality of medical images is enabling healthcare providers to successfully diagnose and resolve more patient problems than ever before. The downside is the demand placed on IT organizations to retain numerous medical images with huge file sizes in a reliable, secure, scalable, and...
Lacking technology is not the problem, says attorney Lucy Thomson. It's that today's technology is not being adequately used to fight modern cybersecurity threats.
Sony Corp.'s announcement that hackers may have accessed data on 77 million gamers follows a long line of recent breaches. And Neal O'Farrell of the Identity Theft Council says the string of incidents has led to consumer 'breach fatigue.'
Despite an overall, albeit gradual, decline in check use, check fraud continues to plague the financial industry. And banks and credit unions are challenged to curb these evolving crimes.
Know what scares security expert John Pescatore the most? The image of a remote employee sitting a home office or public setting, plugging into an unsecured network, accessing critical data via a personal laptop or PDA.
Organizations have never had so many security risks in so many remote locations, says Pescatore,...
For the second time in four months, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has pushed back the implementation of its new data protection law - one of the toughest in the nation.
Yet even with the new deadline of January 2010, many of the businesses impacted by these stringent data protection requirements won't be...
Reported data breaches increased by nearly half in 2008, and 12 percent of the total hacks were at financial institutions - up from 7 percent in 2007.
This is the news from the Identity Theft Resource Center's (ITRC) 2008 breach report, which shows that 2008's 656 reported breaches were up 47 percent over 2007's...
Interviews Shed Light on Topics of Unique Interest to Banking/Security Executives
The annual RSA Conference is a showplace for the who's who of security solutions vendors. The event showroom is lined with scores of the industry's leading vendors - no one individual could hope to see them all.
So, the Information...
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