As employers increasingly realize the importance of information risk management, security, audit and governance, they look to certifications to identify prospective employees.
Organizations have started achieving PCI compliance, but it's a struggle for many to maintain, says Jen Mack, director of PCI Consulting Services for Verizon.
Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Edison. Henry Ford. If there were a Mount Rushmore of great inventors, it wouldn't be out of line to imagine Steve Jobs' face carved into the stone.
"With a company-issued device, you can issue a policy that says users have no rights of privacy over information on the device," says Javelin's Tom Wills. But with employee-owned devices? A whole new set of issues.
RSA Chief Executive Art Coviello challenged a widespread belief that cybersecurity awareness could curb cyberthreats: "There's no amount of consumer education to make them smart enough to resist attacks. They're just too sophisticated."
"Everyone plays a role in protecting card data," says PCI Council head Bob Russo, offering the group's first public response to criticism from Verizon's new report on the state of PCI compliance.
Major breaches involving lost or stolen storage media point to the need to take better security precautions when storing massive amounts of patient information.
When it comes to mobile banking, which do you believe is the greater security risk: the latest evolution of malware or continued bad behavior by the end user? Experts' answers may surprise you.
Discussing Verizon's new report on the state of PCI compliance, PCI expert Jen Mack says payment card security today is "disappointing," and global merchants are at serious risk of new data breaches.
Mobile apps and smartphone security are increasing global concerns. But Dr. Giles Hogben of ENISA says mobile malware mania is a bit overhyped, since mobile is actually more secure than most other platforms currently on the market.
The co-owner of a mental healthcare company was sentenced to 50 years in prison in a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme involving bogus therapy sessions for the elderly in the Miami area.
President Obama's plan to slash more than $3 trillion from the nation's deficits, unveiled on Monday, includes savings of more than $5 billion from cutting waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid.
Two years after starting the Medicare Recovery Audit Program, the Department of Health and Human Services has launched a similar program to crack down on Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse.
A repentant SparkyBlaze wants to go legit, leaving behind the hacktivism he helped foster as a member of Anonymous and start a career in the U.S. as a ethical hacker. As proof, he's offering advice to protect IT from hackers.
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