London: Reacting to a Wall Street Journal report that the top US spies have warned of the rising threat of state-sponsored hacking, social engineering, APTs and other security breaches, security expert Yaki Faitelson has noted that most organisations lack the basic controls that can help them to quickly remediate and learn from an attack, and in many cases prevent or limit breaches in the first place.
CUPERTINO, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE UK: Bromium, Inc., a software solutions provider that makes enterprise endpoints secure by design, has announced its arrival into the UK market with the general availability of its vSentry product. The company, which employs a growing R&D/engineering team in Cambridge, has now added sales and support operations for the UK and wider European market and is recruiting a first wave of competent reseller partners to take Bromium into customers immediately.
The recent stories circulating around the litigation between Genesco and Visa over PCI Compliance and a data breach shine a spotlight on some of the grey areas in PCI DSS. At the same time, there’s a spotlight on how retailers may misinterpret PCI DSS and what it means to them in reducing risk. The bottom line is that retailers can easily avoid the pain of a breach – and get rid of the PCI DSS challenge in a major way. However, what’s underneath this case hitting the front pages of the popular media? There are some unusual and conflicting issues around PCI compliance as reported so far, so it’s worth breaking this down for further investigation. As this case unfolds, we will no doubt learn more about what actually happened in this unfortunate data breach, but already there are lessons to be learned and more questions which need answer. Let’s take stock of the events:
Vigilance can report that at Cardiff Crown Court,Tuesday, March 12, a security company director and consultant to a security business were found guilty of falsely claiming to be part of the Security Industry Authority run Approved Contractor Scheme.
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