Enterprises Need Encryption to Secure Private DataSecurity experts urge users and enterprises to adopt full disk encryption and proper key management to secure sensitive data from accidental exposure.
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.
Data Protection: The Future Is All About Customer ValueHistorically, 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.”
Why PCI Compliance is Important for HotelsAccording 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.
Choosing the Most Appropriate Data Security Solution: Taking a Closer Look at TokenizationWith 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.
5 Data Security Best Practices to Protect PIIRetailers 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.
Data Thieves Find Easy Pickings in Email AddressesRecent 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.
Five worst practices in database encryptionPoor encryption deployments risk too much critical information within databases
Tokenization on the NodeNon-formula data security solution provides greater protection against cyber-criminals.
PCI tokenization: Vendors need to iron out differences, expert saysThe PCI Council has issued its long-awaited guidance supplement addressing the use of tokenization technology to eliminate primary account numbers from merchant systems.