Now-a-days every single CIO, CTO, or business executive that I speak to is captivated by these three new technologies: Big Data, API management and IoTs (Internet of Things). Every single organizational executive that I speak with confirms that they either … Read more
KuppingerCole analyst Craig Burton (of Burton Group originally) wrote a recent article about Façade proxies. You can read the article here: http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/burton/2013/03/18/the-faade-proxy/ As Craig notes, “A Façade is an object that provides simple access to complex – or external – … Read more
Intel Expressway Service Gateway and RSA DPM: Security without pain Top security threats for 2013 include “hacktivism” attacks, botnet malware, distributed denial of service attacks, and identity theft. The problems are well known and yet there is still resistance to … Read more
Recently a colleague and a friend of mine wrote a great article about different ways to be PCI 2.0 compliant by tokenizing PAN data. If in case you missed it I want to draw your attention to it. Essentially, if … Read more
If you missed my Part 1 of this article, you can read it here when you get a chance (link). As a continuation to part 1, where I discussed the issues with Data Protection, we will explore how to solve … Read more
Welcome back, and thanks for continuing to read our blog series on reducing PCI Scope. In our last blog we covered why reducing PCI Scope is so important. Before we address common approaches to Tokenization, let’s recap what PCI DSS … Read more
Sooner or later the following (not so hypothetical quandary) will undoubtedly arise: When moving your data to the cloud, you’ll be faced with an array of decisions that will need to be made. What considerations will you make for the … Read more
With PCI-DSS 2.0 compliance newly mandated and recent guidance on PCI DSS tokenization[i] this is an excellent time for merchants to review their compliance and PCI scope reduction strategies. One of the more common approaches to reducing PCI DSS Scope … Read more
Recently the State of Alaska DHSS was fined a hefty sum of $1.7 million for non-compliance. This issue came to forefront when a USB drive containing PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data was lost (or stolen). This is not the first high profile incident … Read more
A few weeks ago I had a conversation with a customer of mine and we discussed this very topic. How do you measure perfection? It’s a good question worthy of inquiry. I was really surprised at the different answers suggested in … Read more
