Australian companies will need to be better at compliance with the European Union’s new data privacy protections than they are at complying with PCI DSS financial-data security regulations, according to new figures that confirm executives are unhappy with their compliance progress and validate consumers’ concerns that businesses are not protecting their confidential data adequately.
David Braue | 05 Sep | Read more
Australian IT experts are struggling to secure increasingly complex networks and increasing compliance pressure isn’t providing enough incentive for change, a security expert has warned as looming breach-notification legislation threatens to publicly expose poor risk management practices and their consequences.
David Braue | 08 Jun | Read more
It may have started as a guideline for protection of credit-card information, but the payment card industry’s PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is rapidly gaining a following across other industries as a more general framework for data security.
David Braue | 25 Nov | Read more
Think you've got identity under control? Think again, warns one expert in the area who has seen far too many organisations stumbling on with legacy identity and access management (IAM) environments that are no longer up to the challenges of modern mobile and cloud-based information infrastructures.
David Braue | 02 Jun | Read more
Wesfarmers-owned retailer Kmart has confirmed that hackers breached its online ordering system and stole customers’ personal information.
To use Cloud computing securely requires companies to know where their data is stored and who has access to it. Ironically, the reason Cloud is so popular is because organisations don't want to worry about these details. So can the issue be solved by adhering to standards? Increasing legislation? Maybe we need a global technical disaster to ‘sober up’ an industry drunk on the power of Moore's Law.
Companies and retailers that process credit and debit cards are required to implement the requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). This ebook looks at why many now feel that this standard should also be implemented by companies that are not required to do so due to its many benefits.