Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

BSI’s Global Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security and Information Resilience has forecast five key trends across the cyber security landscape for 2020. They focus on multi-factor authentication attacks, third party/supplier risk management, ongoing privacy assurance, advanced hacking techniques and security in the cloud. Multi-factor…

Cyber security is, of course, already high on the agenda for both risk professionals and C-Suite executives who have realised the financial cost, legal implications and reputational damage that can result from a serious data breach.  However, while most responsible organisations have taken on board…

KnowBe4, the provider of a recognised security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, has just released a new, updated SaaS-based GRC platform featuring compliance management, policy management and risk management functionality. Most organisations leverage spreadsheets, documents and/or collaboration portals, as well as e-mail threads and…

With cyber crime on the increase, payment card security is increasingly a focus for companies and consumers alike. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is there to help businesses accepting card payments to protect their payment systems from breaches and theft of…

With the acceptance of mobile and other new forms of payment methods expected to double in the next two years, a new global study highlights a “critical need” for organisations to improve their payment data security practices on an urgent footing. The survey* of over 3,700 IT security…

George Quigley has joined KPMG as a partner to bolster the company’s rapidly-growing Cyber Security Practice. The appointment comes on the back of Ken Hall joining the Practice as a partner in February this year. Quigley takes up this role after moving from BDO where he was a partner…

Transport for London (TfL) has adopted ultra-secure USB flash drives to ensure that its data is protected in the event of the loss or theft of portable devices. iStorage, the portable storage and digital encryption specialist, has confirmed that its datAshur USB flash drives will now…

An explosive growth in cloud applications has dramatically changed the security architecture enterprises need to protect themselves. As a result, those same enterprises are realising they must re-assess their states of security, privacy and compliance such that they can be ‘cloud compatible’. Debabrata Dash delves…

Jody Brazil, CEO at FireMon, discusses the new challenges faced by organisations handling payment card data when it comes to complying with the updated PCI 3.0 standard.  Following yet another year of high-profile security breaches and resulting payment card data theft it seems only logical to…