As the online frontier continues to pose unique challenges for merchants tasked with protecting sensitive data supplied by their customers, the PCI Security Standards Council has released a set of supplementary guidelines covering ecommerce activity. The impetus for this report was primarily commun...

IT departments have been under a great deal of pressure around the office in recent years as employees demand access to innovation and executives expect faultless security. A new report from the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) suggests that their colleagues may be falling well shor...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a long-awaited addendum to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The four previous provisions combined to create the comprehensive new rule, which is intended to bolster patient privacy protections while simul...

Compliance is a common pain point for many organizations, particularly as regulations evolve. Payment Card Industry standards are policed by the major card brands, and each organization has slightly different requirements for following best practices.To help navigate the somewhat nebulous mandates u...

Two years ago, the Office of Management and Budget launched the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), which aims to close 40 percent of the federal government's 3,133 data centers by the end of 2015. Central to accomplishing this goal is not only closing data centers, but also making...