Ten years after the launch of the PCI Data Security Standards Council, the key to ensuring ongoing compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard is winning CEO buy-in worldwide, says Stephen Orfei, general manager of the council.
The need for PCI-DSS compliance is being embraced in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, with adoption of PCI standards increasing dramatically over the last five years, says Dharshan Shanthamurthy, CEO of SISA Information Security, who shares insights about why PCI adoption is likely to continue to grow.
The Dark Overlord selling stolen healthcare databases for bitcoins leads the ISMG Security Report. Also hear about banks' move toward real-time transaction fraud controls and a bipartisan attempt in Congress to tackle the ongoing crypto and "going dark" debates.
So why is Visa temporarily reducing the fraud chargeback burden on non-EMV-compliant U.S. merchants? Mark Nelsen, Visa's senior vice president, says it boils down to this: The card brand wants to give retailers a break while it takes steps to streamline the cumbersome certification of new POS devices.
In the wake of recent SWIFT-related interbank payment heists, more banks are monitoring transactions for anomalous behavior in an attempt to catch fraud in real time, says Andrew Davies, a fraud prevention expert at core banking services provider Fiserv.
Healthcare organizations must do much more to continually measure the effectiveness of their security controls as new cyber threats emerge and evolve, Lisa Gallagher of PricewaterhouseCoopers, formerly of HIMSS, says in this in-depth interview.
Britain's surprise vote to "Brexit" the European Union leads the ISMG Security Report. Also hear analysis on a cybercrime forum selling remote server access; Comodo being in hot water by saying "let's encrypt"; and why Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg covers his webcam with tape.
Achieving international acceptance of PCI-DSS is an ongoing challenge, says Jeremy King, international director of the PCI Security Standards Council, who's working to educate merchants about baseline security that goes far beyond cardholder data protection.
In this edition of the ISMG Security Report, you'll hear reports on the U.S. government nabbing healthcare fraudsters; federal agencies at risk of exposing highly sensitive data; and the hacking of brokerage accounts.
With ransomware attacks surging, all organizations should ensure they have an enterprise backup and disaster recovery plan in place, and eliminate all unnecessary, outdated or disused applications and services running on endpoints and servers, says ESET's Mark James.
There is no such thing as "security by obscurity." Attackers can hack what they can't see. This means organizations must reimagine the fundamentals of API creation, says Jaime Ryan of CA Technologies.
In this edition of the ISMG Security Report, you'll hear our editors explore how hackers use Java script for ransomware, the latest digital currency security issue and privacy threats posed by virtual reality.
In recent months, Cloud Access Security Broker solutions have emerged as a defacto, mandatory control. Which is better approach to CASB - proxy or API? Rohit Gupta of Palerra shares his insight and recommendations.
Crisis management expert Emily Mossburg discusses a new Deloitte study that shows why many organizations must reassess their approach to breach response to focus on what really matters: keeping the organization functioning.
The ISMG Security Report kicks off with thoughts on how Watergate - its 44th anniversary is today - would have turned out differently if today's technology existed in 1972. Also, you'll hear the backstory on the breach at Democratic Party headquarters revealed this past week.
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