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4 Steps CISOs Use To Optimize Data Security
All organizations that handle credit card or other types of payment card data must effectively and efficiently meet all of the various sections of PCI DSS 3.2 for PCI compliance and data security. Just like SOX or GDPR compliance, a failure to protect cardholder data can result in stiff penalties and fines as well as associated costs in settlements, legal fees and reputation loss. Many CISO’s have stated that a…
How CISO’s protect their sensitive data in the cloud
Today, all companies in every market segment face a perfect storm of risk as they are besieged by internal, external, regulator and reputational risk. Yet for CISO’s and ISO’s, getting the security budget to combat those threats can be a challenge. The newest report by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC)1 provides some undeniable facts that all CISO’s and ISO’s can use to support their security budget and receive the funding they…
(by Todd Feinman, CEO and Founder of Spirion) My team thought others would be interested in a memo that I sent to some friends and colleagues. The memo follows: I have received an overwhelming number of requests for information about what to do since the Equifax leak of 143 million SSNs was disclosed. I’ve tried to summarize those questions to help you protect yourself, your family, and your business. If…
(by Todd Feinman, CEO and Founder Spirion) Equifax allowed 143 million Social Security Numbers (SSN), Names, Date of Birth (DOB), and other personally identifiable information (PII) to be stolen. This affects most of us personally because we all have financial accounts (e.g., credit card, bank account, mortgage, car lease) and it’s highly likely Equifax was the recipient of your SSN from a bank who ran a credit report on you…
(by Cory Retherford, Spirion user) Greetings! I am a Solution Engineer for Spirion, LLC. My adventure using the data security software began in 2007 as the Indiana University Technology Services Manager for Student Enrollment Services. We had an organizational mission to provide a solution that would allow a better understanding of our data footprint and the types of data existing on our workstations, servers, and websites. As it happens, fate guided me to the…
Following Spirion’s presentation at RSA 2017, “The Impact of Data Discovery and Data Classification in Information Security” Dr. Larry Ponemon of the Ponemon Institute discusses some of the key findings from “The Importance of DLP in Cybersecurity Defense” Ponemon report. The report, which was published in February of 2017, found significant differences between responses of those that are using a manual approach to mitigate or curtail the leakage of sensitive…