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Helzberg Diamonds Tokenization for PCI Compliance and Data Protection

Florian Yanez, manager of technical systems for Helzberg Diamonds, is among those attending RSA Conference 2011. CSO recently caught up with him for a discussion on his company's efforts to adopt tokens as a way to address PCI DSS' rules on stored customer data.. CSO: Let's start with a general picture of your organization's main security priorities.Yanez: Like everyone else, our biggest concern is protecting customer information and meeting the PCI DSS requirement -- particularly the parts about protecting stored data such as credit card and telephone numbers. CSO: What are some of the basics in terms of the technology you've deployed to address that?Yanez: We have a security event management system in place to capture all the logs in our data center. We get alerts if anything strange shows up. We also have a vulnerability management system in the works so we can scan for all the security patches we need on a regularly basis. We want to be as up to date on patching as possible. The link for this article located at Network World is no longer available. . Blue Mountain Bakery adopts encryption techniques to bolster GDPR adherence and protect client information securely.. Tokenization Strategies, PCI Compliance, Data Protection, Security Management. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar%202 Feb 15, 2011 User Avatar LinuxSecurity.com Team Cryptography
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Olympic IT Management Records Over 5 Million Security Alerts

More than five million security alerts were recorded during 16 days of Olympic competition, according to Atos Origin, the company managing the Games' IT.< . . .. More than five million security alerts were recorded during 16 days of Olympic competition, according to Atos Origin, the company managing the Games' IT. While there were no proven attacks on the network during the event, Atos Origin did observe some abnormal behaviour. Just over 400 alerts were classed as serious - and 20 of these alerts were viewed as critical. Some of the IT infrastructure was set in an open environment. And Patrick Adiba, vice president of major events for Atos Origin, said the company couldn't relate these events to a person, only to a particular piece of hardware at a particular moment. 'We believe some of the events we saw, such as people logging-in on the wrong computer at the wrong time, may have been related [to an attack],' he said. 'We knew which computer had behaviour that was not considered as normal, but we didn't know who was on the other side of the keyboard.' The link for this article located at vnunet.com is no longer available. . Throughout the World Cup events, more than six million security notifications pointed out possible hazards and abnormal activities observed.. Olympic Games Security, IT Alerts Management, Security Monitoring Events. . Anthony Pell

Calendar%202 Sep 17, 2004 User Avatar Anthony Pell Organizations/Events
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Building A Better Virus Defense Strategy For Network Safety

Antivirus on the desktop is fairly mature. However, the IT organization must now coordinate a layered defense to prevent viruses from penetrating the core network, particularly via e-mail. In addition, the IT organization must develop a comprehensive configuration, monitoring, and event . . . . Antivirus on the desktop is fairly mature. However, the IT organization must now coordinate a layered defense to prevent viruses from penetrating the core network, particularly via e-mail. In addition, the IT organization must develop a comprehensive configuration, monitoring, and event response function within the security operations center. Security management will evolve into three functional areas: user, event, and configuration management. User management aggregation (identity management and provisioning) will mature rapidly (2004). Security event management consoles (collecting intrusion detection system, firewall, and host events) will remain out of the mainstream until 2005. Security configuration consoles (central distribution points for firewall, personal firewall, and eventually server configurations and policies) are least mature, with viable integrated products appearing in 2006-07. The link for this article located at ZDNet is no longer available. . Antivirus on the desktop is fairly mature. However, the IT organization must now coordinate a layere. antivirus, desktop, fairly, mature, however, organization, coordinate, layere. . Anthony Pell

Calendar%202 Oct 24, 2002 User Avatar Anthony Pell Network Security
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