compliance
Working to accomplish compliance and security
Organizations have until January 2015 to meet the new requirements of the PCI Data Security Standard version 3.0. Businesses need to ensure that compliance is cyclical and …
A guide to cloud encryption and tokenization
Cloud adoption shows every sign of continuing to grow. The sharing of resources helps businesses achieve savings and agility based on economies of scale but there’s a …
Compliance is no guarantee of security
The regulatory landscape is constantly evolving. For example tougher new EU data protection laws are scheduled to come into effect over the next year or two. These new …
Security pros largely unhappy with compliance methods
Despite the fact that 63% consider regulatory compliance to be “very important”, a new Osterman study shows a low satisfaction level with current methods of …
Compliance misconceptions, challenges and tips
In this interview, Paul Koziarz, President and General Manager of Regulatory Compliance at CSI, talks about the misconceptions related to compliance, provides advice for CSOs …
NIST announces security framework… yawn
Let me start out by saying that I have a bias against regulatory compliance standards; especially those that are non-specific, not prescriptive, require voluntary cooperation …
Five lessons we can learn from financial services and compliance
Banks and financial services organisations have been a prime target for hackers for a very long time, and as a result of this the industry has had to adhere to security …
Security breaches, data loss and outages cost U.S. hospitals $1.6B
A new MeriTalk report, based on a survey of healthcare IT executives and underwritten by EMC, quantifies the organizational cost associated with security breaches, data loss, …
Why governance and policy can strengthen compliance efforts
A colleague of mine recently made a joke and it made me pause to think. During our discussion on compliance and how internal policy can help organizations comply with external …
Penetration testing: Accurate or abused?
According to a recent Ponemon study, since 2010 cybercrime costs have climbed 78% and the time required to recover from a breach has increased 130%. On average, U.S. …
Most non-IT employees don’t “get” company IT security policies
DataMotion released results of its second annual survey on corporate email and file transfer habits. Among the findings is a far-reaching communications disconnect between IT …
One in five SMB retailers lacks security fundamentals
Fortinet published new research that shows where SMB retailers stand in regards to compliance regulations, security policies and new technologies that help manage big data and …