Visa says a move toward EMV can help merchants cut PCI compliance costs, and SWIFT says globalization, regulation and the introduction of new services from non-financial providers will set the tone for payments 2011.
The survey of local, state and federal IT security practitioners also shows a lack of faith in secure cloud computing. Half see insider threats and poor practices as their agencies' greatest vulnerabilities.
The information security profession is at a crucial turning point as professionals scramble to develop new skills in the arenas of cloud computing, mobile applications and social media, a new survey shows.
After one of its commercial customers fell victim to an online account takeover, this community bank suffered losses, reputational damage and learned that legal disputes rarely favor the bank.
Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia is notifying nearly 4,000 patients of a health information breach incident involving personal information exposed on a research website.
Do you have a language barrier with the non-technical managers you support? The National Institute of Standards and Technology's latest publication should help in narrowing that communications gap.
The federal list of major health information breaches included 240 incidents affecting 6.5 million individuals as of Thursday. But that number soon could grow substantially as a result of incidents that made headlines this week.
The Department of Health and Human Services has hired a consulting firm to investigate ways to make it easier to improve the security of electronic health records.
Visa's Eduardo Perez, head of Global Payment System Security, says the EMV chip is an ideal dynamic data technology, but mobile and others offer similar security benefits.
More of a passing thought than a real proposal, a former national intelligence director suggests the creation of a Department of Cyber to tackle cyber threats, but before the idea could set in, Michael McConnell said he had second thoughts.
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