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Numerous warnings have gone out to companies in highly regulated industries such as retail, finance and healthcare. Despite the growing threat of potential breaches, a recent study found lapses in data security that could put companies and their customers at risk. A recent Security Info Watch articl...
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It may not be easy to go back and closely look at what went wrong following a data breach. No one wants to be the employee that lost a flash drive or failed to meet a compliance requirement. However, acting within an effective information security framework requires organizations to do exactly that ...
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Healthcare organizations are frequently victimized by data breaches. Cybercriminals target this sector due to the type of information on record - information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers can be the starting point for a credit card fraud scheme. A recent presentation from consult...
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Virtualization is a highly effective method for increasing the efficiency and availability of physical IT infrastructures, and reducing traditionally high fixed infrastructure costs. According to leading research firms, as many as 95% of enterprises are using some form of virtualization. Today, orga...
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Alarming Research According to the 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach by Poneman Institute, a Michigan-based research center that studies privacy, data protection and information security policy, security breaches cost $214 per compromised record and average $7.2 million per data breach ...
Tagged in: Basel II Compliance Data at Rest Data Breach Data Encryption Data in Motion Data Security Data Transfer FIPS 140-2 HIPAA OMB M-06016 PCI-DSS Secure Data Exchange
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