Companies that handle credit and debit card data now have new guidelines for securing that data in the cloud. The PCI Security Standards Council, the body that administers the Payment Card Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), has issued new compliance requirements for companies that use cloud service providers for handling or processing payment card data. [...]
Here’s a topic no one likes to think about: Identity Theft. There are one of two reasons we don’t like to think about it: 1. You have been the victim of identity theft and have spent days and weeks and months of your life trying to undo the damage made by some lowlife who stole [...]
A well-crafted policy should provide employees, business partners and other users with a clear set of guidelines for securely using corporate information security systems and network assets. A security policy can include as many rules and sub-policies as needed to clearly articulate all the security concerns of an organization. However, at a minimum, it should [...]
Today, more jobs than ever are requiring employees to go mobile with their work. Gone are the days where employees spend an entire day sitting in a cubicle, completing work on a desktop computer. According to a Cisco Horizons study in May 2012, 65 percent of white-collar workers require mobility in their jobs and 78 percent of [...]
As companies move from in-house servers to a cloud service, security needs to be maintained. Companies need to make sure their data and important confidential information is secured from potential cyber attacks from a variety of forms of malicious programs. Security protocols must be adapted from their former conventional enterprise format to a cloud format. [...]
Trying to remember separate passwords for every application a person uses, both for personal use and professional use, is daunting. Fortunately, companies can ease the burden on employees’ memory banks by utilizing Single Sign On (SSO). One Stop Sign On Single Sign-On software allows passwords to be entered automatically in order to access applications utilized by [...]
The IT world is changing at an incredible speed, and this can make IT professionals feel like they’ve entered a new frontier. It often seems like many of the rules that used to apply are no longer relevant. However, as Ryan Faas points out in his recent Cite World article, there are some IT basics that are [...]