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PaymentVision Webinar Advises on New Data Security Essentials

8, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 05/30/2014

PaymentVision PCI-compliant electronic payment gateway services will host a free Data Security Essentials webinar designed to help managers of compliance, accounts receivables, and operations professionals learn about payment card and data security. The event will share information and tools to help business owners and compliance managers understand payment card and data security, the benefits of PCI DSS v3.0, managing the PCI DSS scope, and the new PCI DSS v3.0 requirements.

A-lign Security and Compliance Services Director Invited to MAC Conference

8, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 04/18/2012

Gene Geiger, CPA, CISSP, QSA was one of ten participants in the first MAC Conference “Are you smarter than a QSA?” held earlier this month in Las Vegas held at the MGM Grand. Gene Geiger This was an entertaining, educational PCI discussion debate, and the panel as well as the audience enjoyed themselves. Tampa, FL…

Structured Earns PCI Security Standards Council Certification

7, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 11/29/2011

Structured information technology and systems integrator of secure and scalable IT solutions and services completed PCI Standards Council certification process to provide qualified security assessor (QSA) services to merchants, banks and service providers in the North American market. The data security auditing and PCI readiness services now offers PCI readiness to final on-site data security assessment to guide businesses through the complicated process of achieving PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) compliance.

Webroot Appoints Chief Information Security Officer

10, Country, Priority, UNITED KINGDOMBy Robert McKinley 10/21/2011

Jacques Erasmus has been appointed chief information security officer with the Webroot Internet security service company. Bringing with him more than a decade of technical expertise, including nine years leading malware detection efforts at Webroot and Prevx, which was acquired by Webroot in 2010, Erasmus has led incident response and PCI-DSS activities for many large companies worldwide and discovered a number of high-profile threats and breaches. His studies in behavior-based threat protection and cloud-based technology systems provide a key source of input across product development and threat research.

Tokenization Summit to Address Financial Services Success

9, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 05/04/2011

Liaison Technologies VP, Product Management is set to illustrate benefits of data tokenization for financial services companies. This includes risk reduction and compliance with PCI DSS and data privacy laws at the 2011 FS-ISAC, BITS Annual Summit. Liaison will present several use cases illustrating how tokenization is being used by financial services companies to protect data at rest in databases, files and applications. For those not yet familiar with tokenization, the presentation will also include an introduction to the technology. It will touch on how financial services companies have implemented tokenization to protect both payment card numbers (PCI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) through real-life use cases.

Destiny Solutions Achieves PCI PA-DSS V2.0 Compliance

10, CANADA, Country, PriorityBy Robert McKinley 03/25/2011

Destiny Solutions’ “Destiny OneCE” has achieved PCI PA-DSS Version 2.0 compliance. The “Destiny OneCE” platform is designed by Certified Information Security System Professionals (CISSP), software developers and business analysts who are seasoned experts in developing secure software. Campus-wide, Destiny OneCE constantly safeguards valuable data by offering a powerful set of security certifications and standards that are industry respected. In conjunction with the PCI PA-DSS standard, Destiny OneCE is developed to protect against security threats as defined by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP.) Destiny OneCE software dynamically generates and strictly enforces best practices-based business rules and processes, ensuring proper separation of duties, while adhering to organizational structure, rules, roles and security policies.

nuBridges Presents on Benefits of Tokenization

10, Country, Priority, UNITED KINGDOMBy Robert McKinley 03/11/2011

nuBridges VP, Product Management is set to present to the British Retail Consortium’s UK PCI Merchants’ Working Group how tokenization benefits merchants that want to reduce the risk of credit card data theft while complying with PCI DSS. He will provide an update on the PCI Security Standards Council’s (PCI SSC) view of tokenization for PCI DSS scope reduction and compliance and the Council’s next steps, lowering the initial cost, using real-life customer use cases to illustrate benefits.

Payment Systems & Onformonics to Kick-Off PCI DSS Seminar

4, Country, Priority, UNITED ARAB EMIRATESBy Robert McKinley 01/03/2011

Payment Systems Consulting is teaming up with Onformonics PCI DSS Training Seminars to offer the 2 day PCI DSS Compliance Best Practices Seminar on Jan.31-Feb. 01 at the Amwaj Rotana hotel in Jumeirah Beach, Dubai, UAE. Organizations who accept or process credit/ debit cards payments such as Financial institutions, service providers, Merchants and generally any organisations falling under the ‘store, process or transmit’ remit, are required by the leading payment brands to comply with the PCI DSS standard in order to mitigate the risks associated with security breaches resulting in data compromises which they inherently carry as a result of handling such sensitive cardholder information. The course will be conducted by Martin Petrov, a Visa PCI DSS Principal Trainer.

ProPay adds New Members to Security Team

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 06/30/2010

Chris Mark and Dr. Heather Mark, Ph.D. have been added to ProPay’s Data Security and Regulatory Compliance team. Chris Mark, CISSP, CPISM/A, CIPP, joins ProPay as the Executive VP, Data Security and Compliance to oversee data security and compliance initiatives and work with product development on improving the “ProtectPay” secure payment processing service. He brings with him experience gained with Qualified Security Assessors on behalf of the PCI SSC. Dr. Heather Mark, Ph.D., CISSP, CPISM/A, CIPP, has taken the role of Senior VP, Market Strategy. ProPay offers End-to-End Payment Security for credit card processing and electronic payment services.

nuBridges VP Joins Panel to Counsel on Preventing Data Breaches

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 05/04/2010

nuBridges information security expert and VP, Gary Palgon, will take part in a panel discussion on how financial services companies can better protect financial databases to prevent data security breaches at the 2010 FS-ISAC, FSTC, BITS Annual Summit on May 4 at the Don Cesar Beach Resort in St. Pete Beach. Gary is VP, Product Management for nuBridges, and a member of the PCI Security Standards Council. A frequent speaker on information security, Palgon was named Best New Speaker and inducted into the Speaker Excellence Hall of Fame at IBM Common in 2008. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were 461 breaches and more than 222,000,000 records compromised last year.

PCI Certifies Applied Trust a PCI Security Assessor

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 01/13/2010

CO-based IT and network security consultant Applied Trust has been
certified as a “Qualified Security Assessor” by the Payment Card
Industry Standards Council. This designation authorizes Applied Trust to
conduct on-site compliance audits for companies that process, transmit
or store credit card data and are therefore required to comply with the
PCI Data Security Standard (DSS). As a QSA, Applied Trust can also
assess compensating controls for compliance when legitimate technical or
documented business constraints prevent companies from meeting
explicitly stated requirements.

Card Number Tokenization Webinar Planned

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 07/14/2009

End to end payment processor Electronic Payment Exchange and the PCI Knowledge Base
will present âHow Credit Card Number Tokenization Can Reduce PCI Scopeâ¦and Data Protection Costsâ webinar on July 22. Issues addressed will include: why is encryption not always a total solution, especially for
larger organizations,; how can merchants operate without cardholder data in their
environments; what is true “end-to-end” tokenization…and what are the
different ways to implement it; what types and sizes of organizations will benefit most from
tokenization; what are the different approaches to creating secure replacement
value reference algorithms; should replacement values be created and managed internally, or
by a payment processor; ow is tokenization priced, and why it can dramatically reduce
the cost of card data protection? The PCI Knowledge Base is the largest independent research community of
organizations focused on the Payment Card Industry (PCI.

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