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If Not The PCI Standards, Then What? « PCI Guru

compliancesoftware — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:08:25 +0000

Frustrated, I asked the participants at my last meeting, “If not the PCI standards, then what standard do you want to follow to ensure the security of cardholder data?” Roaring silence. via If Not The PCI Standards, Then What? « …

Dell To Acquire Secureworks

compliancesoftware — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:20:59 +0000

Dell today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SecureWorks® Inc., a globally recognized provider of information-security services. SecureWorks’ industry leading Security-as-a-Service solutions include Managed-Security Services, Security and Risk Consulting Services and Threat Intelligence. The acquisition expands Dell’s …

Anatomy Of A Breach « PCI Guru

compliancesoftware — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:15:59 +0000

People are always asking me why complying with the PCI standards is important as in, “What’s in it for my company?” So I thought I would take a known, documented breach and walk through where PCI compliance would have made …

Indiana AG Sues WellPoint for Breach

compliancesoftware — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:22:47 +0000

Indiana Attorney General Gregory Zoeller has filed a lawsuit against health insurer WellPoint Inc., alleging the company did not notify 32,051 affected consumers in the state of a breach of their protected health information in a timely manner. via Indiana …

#PCI 2.0 Changes: The Good, The Bad And The Hashing

compliancesoftware — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:30:31 +0000

The first thing readers will notice when they open PCI Version 2.0 is an expanded section defining PCI scope. Version 2 requires merchants and processors to identify explicitly all the locations and flows of cardholder data annually before they begin …

Lost hard drive puts data on 280,000 Medicaid enrollees at risk – FierceHealthIT

compliancesoftware — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:28:20 +0000

The names, addresses and some health information of 280,000 Medicaid enrollees in Pennsylvania could be at risk after two affiliated managed care organizations reported the loss of a hard drive from a portable computer.The hard drive went missing in the …

GSA Chooses IaaS Vendors for US Government Cloud Computing Initiative “Apps.gov”

compliancesoftware — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:25:32 +0000

In an effort to make cloud solutions more easily available to government agencies, the US General Services Administration (www.gsa.gov) has awarded 11 companies a five-year, government-wide Blanket Purchase Agreement to make Infrastructure as a Service solutions available to all levels …

E-crime Now More Common Than Real Crime

compliancesoftware — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:14:19 +0000

If there was any doubt about the popularity of electronic dupery, it should be put to rest with a report on global fraud released the week by the risk management consulting firm Kroll. For the first time since 2007, when …

PatientsLikeMe incident may just be ‘scraping’ the surface – FierceHealthIT

compliancesoftware — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:26:45 +0000

Ready for another threat to individual privacy? Less insidious, perhaps, than phishing, but potentially as damaging is a relatively new technique called “scraping.” Scraping is the practice of trolling social networking sites, message boards and chat rooms looking for personal …

Discover to get $5M from Heartland for ’08 data breach

compliancesoftware — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:40:38 +0000

Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay $5 million to Discover to settle claims arising from the massive data breach disclosed by the payment processor last year. In a brief statement on Wednesday, the Princeton, N.J.-based Heartland said the settlement …