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Twelve Steps to IT Security Nirvana

Organisations like Sony, Lockheed Martin, Nintendo, and Groupon share something unpleasant in common: recent security breaches. They are not alone. The list of companies suffering the public humiliation and expense that go hand-in-hand with lax IT security procedures goes on and on. I read in a read last week that the global market for stolen identities is now worth a staggering $5 billion a year. Most of these companies had implemented encryption to protect their data, and yet their efforts were wasted because they had not followed best practices for managing their encryption assets and deployments.

Calum

: CALUM MACLEOD, EMEA DIRECTOR, VENAFI; InfoSecurity; Posted On Monday, 31 October 2011 06:43

PCI DSS: Successes in 2011 and the challenges to be overcome

Recent figures from the UK Cards Association showed that banking industry initiatives, including PCI have been successful in decreasing the volume of card and bank account fraud. Payment card fraud losses in 2010 reached their lowest levels since 2000, and have made significant improvement from their all-time high just three years ago in 2008. Overall, they suggested that total fraud losses on UK cards fell by 17 percent alone over the preceding year. Data protection laws in Europe are getting tougher, with Spain, Italy and Germany now requiring companies to notify customers of a privacy breach. Additionally, as companies take a broader look at business processes in the data-security context, PCI DSS is proving successful as a strong foundation for overall data security, with research pointing to the PCI Standards as effective in efforts to satisfy the European Data Protection Directive.

: JEREMY KING, EUROPEAN DIRECTOR, PCI SECURITY STANDARDS COUNCIL; InfoSecurity; Posted On Monday, 31 October 2011 06:42

Mission accomplished: Security Council winds up operations in Libya

Having carried out a very successful military campaign in Libya in the wake of the popular uprising against the monstrous regime of monster Muarmar Qadhafi, Vigilance can report that the Security Council yesterday ordered the end to authorized international military action in Libya, more than seven months after allowing United Nations Member States to take “all necessary measures” to protect civilians during a popular uprising against the country’s former regime.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; International Security, Safety & Strategic Defence; Posted On Friday, 28 October 2011 09:42

ICO research places IT professionals on high alert

Following the research from the Information Commissioner's Office ICO advising that businesses are waking up to their data protection responsibilities, Varonis has said that IT security professionals needed to be aware of the dangers that their data – and in particular, unstructured data – now posed to their organisations.