PCI DSS Compliance Lower than Ever
In Verizon’s 2019 Payment Security Report, it was revealed that in 2018 only 36.7% of businesses are fully compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Indeed, over the past several years, PCI DSS compliance has been steadily slipping. There is a downward trend since 2016 where ... Read More
Domain Provider ‘Network Solutions’ Announces Data Breach
In a recent statement, the world’s first Internet domain name provider, Network Solutions, revealed that they were the target of a data breach. The company announced that an unknown third-party acquired unauthorized access to some of their computer systems starting in late August 2019. The organization said that they have ... Read More
The Difference Between Format-Preserving Encryption and Tokenization
There is a lot of confusion surrounding this topic and, given recent developments such as the ANSI X9 standard for retail financial services, tokenization can actually be implemented with format-preserving encryption (FPE). In the end, both achieve the same thing, namely, replacing sensitive data with a protected surrogate. However, they ... Read More
How to End the Tug of War Between Data Analytics and Data Security
Data analysts want access to large volumes of data because, generally speaking, the bigger the sample size, the more accurate the predictions. One of the biggest thorns in the side of data analysts is when your organization has a big fat set of data just waiting to be crunched, but ... Read More
One Year Later – What Were the Biggest GDPR Fines?
GDPR’s potential fines of 20 million EUR or 4% of global annual turnover had organizations across the globe shaking in their boots, but was the fear really warranted? Now that GDPR has been in effect for a full year, let’s take a look at what’s happened thus far ... Read More
One Year Later – Has GDPR Really Been that Big of a Deal?
GDPR’s potential fines of 20 million EUR or 4% of global annual turnover had organizations across the globe shaking in their boots, but was the fear really warranted? Now that GDPR has been in effect for a full year, let’s take a look at what’s happened thus far ... Read More
SecurDPS Enterprise Honored in SC Media’s 30th Anniversary Awards
Wiesbaden, Germany - March 6, 2019 - SC Media today announced that SecurDPS Enterprise was selected as a one of the Most Critical Cybersecurity Products in the Last 30 Years for SC Media’s 30th Anniversary Awards ... Read More
5 Countries with GDPR-like Data Privacy Laws
GDPR wasn't the beginning and it certainly won't be the end. Strict data privacy legislation is appearing in more and more economies across the globe, meaning the list of “GDPR-free” havens is growing shorter by the day. CISOs and other data security executives at globally operating organizations will have no ... Read More