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PCI DSS compliance can help you protect sensitive data and prevent data breaches. Step 1: Identify sensitive data and track how your applications handle it.
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Software compliance isn’t just a concern of security, development, and legal executives. Your developers and development managers should care about it too. Here’s why. How do you evaluate the quality of an application? A simple quality chec… Continue reading Why your development team should care about software compliance
The GDPR fines issued so far have been small, but breach notifications are up. As GDPR continues to ramp up, it seems likely to achieve its goals of privacy. The original version of this post was published in Forbes. With the European Union’s lan… Continue reading GDPR: Not heavy-handed yet, but driving data breaches into the open
With the new PCI standards, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council intends to reduce credit card fraud. But the new standards may not be enough. The original version of this post was published in Forbes. Anything that could reverse, or ev… Continue reading New software standards aim to slow rampant credit card theft
The worst data privacy threat today isn’t data breach but data abuse. Organizations are using AI to learn more about us than we’d ever choose to tell them. The original version of this post was published in Forbes. You have to have a suprem… Continue reading National Data Privacy Day is wishful thinking
The OWASP Top 10 2017 is a list of the most significant web application security risks. How are you addressing these top 10 web app vulnerabilities? The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a nonprofit community of software developers,… Continue reading OWASP Top 10 web application security risks
SEC security measures, or cyber enforcement actions, are powerful incentives for financial institutions to protect investments and data from theft and fraud. If there oughta be a law but there isn’t, there can still be a regulation. Which so far … Continue reading SEC getting more aggressive on financial cyber lapses
The Consumer Data Protection Act (as outlined in the CDPA draft circulated in early November by Sen. Ron Wyden) might not send CEOs to jail, but it will certainly help protect Americans’ data. The original version of this post was published in Fo… Continue reading Don’t expect jailed CEOs, but Wyden at least puts consumer privacy on the table
California is all done with weak passwords. Well, not right now, but it says it will be done with them for internet-connected devices in another 14 months—starting Jan. 1, 2020. From then on, the Information Privacy: Connected Devices bill, signe… Continue reading Better passwords in California won’t help much