Accelerating the Journey to PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance with ACI Worldwide

Accelerating the Journey to PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance with ACI Worldwide

Regulatory compliance is a fact of life for any business. And for those that accept, process, store or transmit credit card information, that means ensuring they meet the exacting requirements of PCI DSS. The card industry data security standard is two decades old this year, and its latest iteration promises ... Read More
Case Study: Why Data-Centric Security Is a Must-Have for the Insurance Sector

Case Study: Why Data-Centric Security Is a Must-Have for the Insurance Sector

Insurance is fundamentally a data-driven business. The insights that carriers can extract from the vast volumes of customer data they process can add huge competitive advantage–enabling them to detect fraud and optimize premium pricing more effectively. But this often highly sensitive data is also a risk in itself—from a compliance ... Read More
Cybersecurity in the Boardroom: A Strategic Driver for Growth

Cybersecurity in the Boardroom: A Strategic Driver for Growth

Cybersecurity has struggled for many years to make it onto the boardroom agenda. The perception of it as a purely technology function with limited strategic importance has led many organizations to take a short-term, check-box approach to managing cyber risk. This grossly undervalues the role cyber can and should have ... Read More
Supply Chain Cybersecurity: Safeguarding the Retail Ecosystem

Supply Chain Cybersecurity: Safeguarding the Retail Ecosystem

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The global economy is built on supply chains. But one sector more reliant than most on complex networks of interrelated businesses is retail. The average retailer may not even realize how many suppliers it has across physical and digital channels. Together, this web of relationships ensures goods get from source ... Read More
Fortifying Finance: Navigating the Cybersecurity Landscape in Banking

Fortifying Finance: Navigating the Cybersecurity Landscape in Banking

The global financial services market was worth over $25 trillion in 2022. That kind of wealth inevitably attracts malicious activity. Cyber-criminals are broadly speaking after the wealth of highly monetizable personal and financial data that financial institutions hold on their customers, or access to their accounts. But at the same ... Read More
How Cybersecurity Can Be a Catalyst for Technology Innovation

How Cybersecurity Can Be a Catalyst for Technology Innovation

Innovation is a primary engine of growth for modern business. It helps organizations stay relevant at a time of intense technological change. It can also help them to become more efficient. And it can even encourage the brightest and best talent to join the company, as well creating a buzz ... Read More
How Insurers Can Grow Their Data-Centric Business Through Improved Cybersecurity

How Insurers Can Grow Their Data-Centric Business Through Improved Cybersecurity

Data and users are what usually attract cyber-criminals to specific sectors and organizations. And the insurance industry has both in droves. While carriers play an integral role in helping their customers to transfer financial liability for serious security breaches, they risk themselves becoming a target ... Read More
Gartner’s Hype Cycle 2023 Report Reveals the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Data Security Professionals

Gartner’s Hype Cycle 2023 Report Reveals the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Data Security Professionals

Technology adoption is rarely linear. In fact, the best way to think of it is something that moves through various cycles; from the earliest innovation spark to mainstream adoption and productive use. This graphical representation was pioneered by Gartner, whose hype cycle for various tech product categories now informs enterprise ... Read More

Five Things We Can Learn from the Latest Europol/NCA Reports

The front line in the war on cybercrime can be an unrelenting place. Those tasked with bringing cyber-criminals to heel work long hours for relatively low pay. But they also offer an arguably unique insight into the cybercrime landscape which we can all learn from. Two new reports from the ... Read More
Business Continuity Planning: How Data Security Can Help to Minimize Disruption

Business Continuity Planning: How Data Security Can Help to Minimize Disruption

Business disruption is inevitable today. And increasingly it’s down to cyber incidents. Attacks caused $10.3bn in losses last year, in cases reported to the FBI alone. Even this figure is likely to be just the tip of the iceberg. With so much at stake, organizations need to look at ways ... Read More