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PCI Council Launches Reseller Cert Program

compliancesoftware — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:05:44 +0000

Channel partners honing their compliance skills will soon be able to add one more to their portfolio with the launch of a new Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council certification program specifically targeting integrators and resellers. via PCI Council Launches …

Level 3 PCI Compliance Increases Slightly, Even As Its Population Grows

compliancesoftware — Thu, 10 May 2012 03:04:49 +0000

The latest PCI compliance stats—out this week—show trivial changes from the prior report, with Level 2 and Level 3 retailers slightly increasing compliance. Level 2 went from 91 percent at the end of December 2011 to 92 percent as of …

40% of U.S. government Web sites fail security test

compliancesoftware — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:17:33 +0000

Approximately 40% of federal government agencies are out of compliance with a regulation that requires them to deploy an extra layer of authentication on their Web sites to prevent hackers from hijacking Web traffic and redirecting it to bogus sites …

FISMA compliance eludes agencies — Federal Computer Week

compliancesoftware — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:39:09 +0000

Only seven out of 24 agencies are more than 90 percent compliant with the Federal Information Security Management requirements, and more than half saw their compliance score decline compared to last fiscal year’s numbers, according to an Office of Management …

Final phase of Mass. data protection law kicks in March 1

compliancesoftware — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:27:00 +0000

All companies storing personal data on Massachusetts residents have just over a month to ensure that their contractors, suppliers, technology providers and other third parties comply with a provision of a state data breach law that went into effect in …

uPromise and FTC

compliancesoftware — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:07:58 +0000

The FTC alleged that after the personalized offers feature was enabled, extensive information was collected from the user and transmitted to Upromise, including the names of all websites visited, all links clicked by the user and information that users entered …

2012 Security Spending To Hold Strong

compliancesoftware — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:37:03 +0000

For 2012, 37% of information security professionals say their business plans to increase its security spending, while only 16% expect their security spending to decrease. The top drivers for spending increases are to address compliance, mobile devices, and data loss …

The (EMV/Contactless) World According To Visa « PCI Guru

compliancesoftware — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:18:06 +0000

The PCI SSC stated that while Visa is not requiring merchants to file a ROC or AOC, the merchant still has to ensure that it is PCI DSS compliant. This means that the merchant still must go through the PCI …

Agency to deliver shared governance, risk compliance service

compliancesoftware — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:00:44 +0000

CenITex, the Victorian Government’s shared services IT agency, will adopt a new IT governance, risk and compliance (ITGRC) package to improve its information security function. via Agency to deliver shared governance, risk compliance service.

VMware’s CP&C releases free Compliance Checker tool

compliancesoftware — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:07:38 +0000

The Compliance Checker runs an assessment on ESX/ESXi hosts managed by vCenter The assessment is based on a predefined subset of 29 of the vSphere 4.1 Security Hardening Guide rules and is run against the first 5 ESX/ESXi hosts found …