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Expert Interview: Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

In this our first 'Interview with an Expert' Geoff Webb, NetIQ's Senior Product Marketing Manager talks with Dorian Cougias, CEO of Network Frontiers and member of the PCI Security Standards Council about his views on why PCI will remain one...

Published Fri, Feb 27 2009 10:16 AM by David Shephard

Filed under: PCI DSS, Credit Card Data, Geoff Webb, NetIQ, Dorian Cougais, PCI Standards Council, David Shephard, Security Web
Et tu, Brute?

Well, since apparently I'm on a Shakespearian kick it seems like a good idea to discuss foul infamy, betrayal, and possibly the odd comedy of errors. Julius Caesar certainly found out the hard way that sometimes the people closest can be the ones...

Published Thu, Feb 26 2009 2:31 PM by Geoff Webb

Filed under: Security, Access Control, Ponemon Institute, Geoff Webb, Security Web
Security ROI, Shakespeare, and a lot of noise.

Mike Fratto takes an interesting position in his blog on InformationWeek in which he argues that efficiency as a way of driving security ROI is really something of a distraction at best. His point, and I don't disagree with it as far as it goes, is...

Published Fri, Feb 20 2009 3:45 PM by Geoff Webb

Filed under: Security, IT process automation, Information Week, Geoff Webb, Security Web
PCI DSS, iSeries, and the privileged users who love them

It’s interesting that, in all the discussions I see about PCI DSS compliance and security monitoring, I rarely ever see discussions around securing the iSeries platforms. I think part of the time it’s a visibility issue. The nature of iSeries...

Published Mon, Feb 16 2009 7:45 PM by Geoff Webb

Filed under: Security, Access Control, PCI DSS, Insider Attack, IBM iSeries, Geoff Webb, Security Web
Heartland Data Breach List

Bankinfosecurity is maintaining a list of those financial institutions affected by the Heartland Payment Systems breach , reported earlier this year. So far, it seems more than 200 have been affected, and more are discovered on a daily basis. While the...

Published Fri, Feb 13 2009 6:38 AM by Geoff Webb

Filed under: Data Breach, Heartland Breach, Bankinfosecurity, Geoff Webb, Security Web
FAA data breach: long term risks for long term data

The recent breach report on Computerworld.com got me thinking about the reality of privacy and data security. The breach itself involves the loss of personal data for around 45,000 current and former employees and other than the FAA being a household...

Published Wed, Feb 11 2009 3:35 PM by Geoff Webb

Filed under: Security, Data Breach, FAA Breach, Geoff Webb, Security Web
Streamline and Unify Compliance

I did a short interview with SearchStorage.com recently in which I was asked about the unified compliance framework approach to reducing the workload of meeting regulatory compliance requirements. As organizations have to deal with a greater number of...

Published Mon, Feb 09 2009 3:18 PM by Geoff Webb

Filed under: Security, SCAP, Unified Compliance, SearchStorage.com, Geoff Webb, Security Web
Leaky Data Buckets

The 2008 Cost of Data Breach study by The Ponemon Institute was published a couple of days ago (courtesy of PGP). As usual, it makes interesting reading, although it's risky to extrapolate too far based on the relatively small numbers of respondents...

Published Tue, Feb 03 2009 11:27 PM by Geoff Webb

Filed under: Data Breach, Ponemon Institute, Geoff Webb, Security Web

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Expert Interview: Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

Et tu, Brute?

Security ROI, Shakespeare, and a lot of noise.

PCI DSS, iSeries, and the privileged users who love them

Heartland Data Breach List

FAA data breach: long term risks for long term data

Streamline and Unify Compliance

Leaky Data Buckets