Protecting online data should be high on your list. How much faith do you have in the security of your online business’s web applications? If your website is like most, it runs applications for everything from product searches to backend analytics to the shopping cart. … Read more
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has 12 primary requirements, but within those it has a multitude of sub-requirements. While many of these are straightforward there are several that can leave even the technologically savvy person perplexed. Secure software application development is … Read more
The bad guys don’t care what—or how much of it—you sell online. Today’s e-commerce businesses are in hackers’ cross hairs for many reasons, not the least of which is their ease of access. With the Internet as their gateway, every single e-commerce business is an … Read more
The story behind the DBD. Each spring, the information security community looks forward to the release of the latest Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR). This year we have some advanced data breach info as we await the DBIR: The Verizon 2017 Data Breach Digest … Read more
Combat security threats while achieving PCI compliance. Over the past several months, a barrage of news stories and opinion pieces has sent a worrisome message: The payment security war is being lost because PCI standards are failing us. This defeatist belief that the hackers have … Read more
The best way to truly strengthen your business’s security posture—which is the goal of the PCI DSS—is to have a sober understanding of your risk as well as the full scope of your PCI compliance responsibility. Here are five best practices for easily and cost-effectively … Read more