Whether it’s a brick and mortar retailer, online web store, or complex reservation system like in the airline business, data-centric security takes the risk away without compromising the business process. Data-centric security is ultimate anti-theft technology when it comes to sensitive data: by protecting live data as close to its capture as possible and making it unreadable to thieves and unauthorized users while leaving it useful to the business and merchant’s payment process, the technology acts as both a defence and an enabler to do more with data in low-trust environments. With technology breakthroughs made in the last few years, this can be achieved with such transparency that deployments across entire nationwide stores can be achieved in weeks, taking merchants of the radar of the increasing population of attackers using off-the-shelf malware kits and to exploit vulnerable systems that simply can’t be wrapped in traditional defences to secure them.“
An update on Neiman Marcus developments - identification of Russian hackers behind the breach
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It was reported recently that the hackers who raided the credit-card payment system of Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. belong to a sophisticated Russian syndicate that has stolen more than 160 million credit-card numbers from retailers over seven years. Commenting on this, Mark Bower, VP, product management and solutions architecture, Voltage Security says:
“I can’t imagine a single retailer who wouldn’t want to turn the ‘gold’ - data the attackers might steal - into ‘straw,’ saving them from the massive penalty of remediating the impact of modern day gold-thieves and making intrusion and theft of their IT systems a worthless waste of time. Well, the good news is its already here and its exactly what the industry leading acquirers and retailers are doing today to combat the risks of data theft, especially payment card data, with paradigm-shifting data-centric approaches to security.