Good Security means doing good basic IT. And sometimes it also means keeping up with new compliance initiatives by industry or government. This year October…
What does PCI compliance really mean? There are similarities with ISO27001, PCI compliance is set up as an audit of the IT department with a…
To be PCI compliant means there is a Security policy in place. We can help with a security policy or with the documentation for PCI…
NewsofDay: On CMS systems review from this post: http://securityintelligence.com/cms-hacking-2014-by-the-numbers/ Also for TipofDay: PCI compliance the new page created at Oversitesentry (My blog) http://oversitesentry.com/pci-compliance/
Threatpost blog post: http://threatpost.com/microsoft-recalls-patch-tuesday-exchange-update/109844 about the exchange server patch rollback (uninstall). The TipofDay is about PCI compliance – security policy must be created. some parts…
What is the reason one hires an independent CPA to check your financial books? Unfortunately even where employees are trustworthy and capable, it makes sense…
DARKReading has the highlights of the changes of v3.0 compared with v2.0 SearchSecurity also has a synopsis – with the 5 most important changes: 1. Pentesting (Penetration…
Have you checked wifi signals as to their effectiveness? Is your wifi router/ access point using good encryption technology? Wardriving: Peter Shipley coined the term “wardriving”…
PCISecurityStandards.org has a website and it’s response to the Target Data breach: “As part of this security effort, the Council maintains that adherence to and maintenance of…
Dark Reading has an interesting article about how Target was compliant with PCI(Payment Card Industry) standards and it was not enough. The Point of Sale terminals…