January 19, 2012 |
MultiChannel Merchant
Last week, a Zappos employee on its security team who protects customer payment card information (PCI) data arrived safely home and thought his or her job was done. However that person forgot that customer personally identifiable information (PII) data is also attractive to hackers. And voila – Zappos is now painted with the same humiliating brush as Sony, Nintendo, Stratfor, AT&T, and others.
January 9, 2012 |
Enterprise Systems
With all the high profile breaches of customer data we’ve seen this year (Sony, Citi Corp, Epsilon, and more), consumer confidence in current data protection standards is on shaky ground. Class-action lawsuits are flying, businesses are paying millions in compensation, and it’s clearly time for a major attitude adjustment towards data protection. In 2012, businesses will focus on determining how much they are willing to invest to protect their customers’ personally identifiable information — through secure storage, compliance with legislation, and the tools required to accomplish those tasks effectively.
January 4, 2012 |
HotelNewsNow.com
Anticipating risk in the hotel security field is an imprecise art—one that’s grown increasingly difficult with the introduction of new technologies, regulations and global threats.
January 3, 2012 |
eweek.com
Security experts urge users and enterprises to adopt full disk encryption and proper key management to secure sensitive data from accidental exposure.
December 15, 2011 |
Enterprise Security News
PCI compliance and the security of data in the cloud are fast becoming a single issue for businesses. Unfortunately, while compliance and other legislative requirements will become more rigorous, demanding more robust data security that will better protect individuals, the security of that data while it’s in the cloud, whether in transit or at rest, is struggling to keep pace.
December 8, 2011 |
IT Business Edge
Historically, data protection and associated compliance costs have sat firmly in the IT budget “bucket.” But the costs of compliance, and the potential cost of falling out of compliance, are spiraling out of control, and it’s clear that businesses are looking to justify their compliance spend in terms of overall value to the business, not just to spend the money “because the law says we have to.”
November 25, 2011 |
Hotels Magazine
According to Verizon’s 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report, 40 percent of all 2010 data breaches occurred in the hospitality industry. Not surprisingly, the report also found that PCI compliance levels were down from the previous year; 89 percent of businesses surveyed were not validated compliant at the time of the breach.
November 17, 2011 |
ISACA Journal
With the rising cost of data security breaches and their increasing frequency, companies are starting to reevaluate how they protect their data. External and internal breaches have highlighted the need for companies to understand the flow of data within the enterprise and the need to take a more granular approach in terms of how data are secured.
November 4, 2011 |
RIS News
Retailers have fallen victim to large-scale data breaches in the past — look at TJ Maxx in 2007 when 45 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen from its IT systems. Fast-forward to 2011, and breaches at Sony and Epsilon have shown that this trend is continuing to plague the retail industry. What’s different is that these recent data breaches illustrate how hackers are increasingly targeting personally identifiable information (PII), such as e-mail addresses, instead of financial information like credit card numbers.
October 5, 2011 |
American Banker
Recent breaches at Epsilon and Citibank are evidence that criminals are not just going after financial information anymore; they are increasingly profiting from stealing all kinds of customer data, especially email addresses.
Lessons you can Learn from the Zappos Data Breach
