data breaches in white papers
IT Departments on Data Security: A Research Concepts Survey
White Paper A survey of 185 IT professionals finds that, although computer and data security are high priorities, they are surprisingly unprepared to prevent data breaches and computer theft. One out of four organizations surveyed had a data breach in the past... [06 Jun 2008]
Endpoint Security for Protecting Data on Mobile Computers
White Paper For IT departments, encryption and policy enforcement have proven ineffective against data breaches resulting from careless use and insider threats. Laptop computers and mobile devices have caused major data security issues in recent years. [06 Jun 2008]
How to Achieve Compliance With Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Protection Clauses and Protect Against Data Breaches
White Paper With the severity of recent data breaches, anxiety in the security and compliance community has reached a new high. Questions are being asked about what it means to be PCI compliant, particularly in the context of protecting data from data breaches. [31 May 2008]
PCI: How to Safeguard Customer Data Against Real Threats
White Paper PCI requires affected organizations to continuously monitor and manage the cardholder data environment, while maintaining a strong security posture against breaches and attacks. Through PCI DSS, the card associations are taking a stand against... [31 May 2008]
Meeting the PCI Application Security Requirements: Building Compliance In
White Paper Since 2005, over 215 million data records have been exposed as the result of security breaches. The security of customer payment data is not just a payment brand issue but is the responsibility of all businesses that participate in the payment... [31 May 2008]
Penetration Hurts: Best Practices to Protect Sensitive Data and Achieve PCI Compliance
White Paper Breaches occur on point-of-sale, back office, and wireless technology systems. The greatest threat on the Internet involves increased in data theft, data leakage, and targeted attacks for the purpose of stealing confidential information that can be... [31 May 2008]
Database Activity Monitoring: Intrusion Detection and Security Auditing
White Paper Security auditing is an independent review and examination of data processing system records and activities to test for adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established security policy and operational procedures, to detect... [31 May 2008]
Univerge VoIP Security Best Practice
White Paper Security breaches might cause damage to an organization's reputation and/or loss of business opportunities if occurred. Although IP telephony solutions allow for a new way of office communication while reducing network costs, it does however add... [31 May 2008]
Stop Data Loss Before It Happens
White Paper Data breaches are becoming a high-profile element of the threat environment. Most data-centers are too complex and porous to protect critical information. That's why a data-centric approach is called for - one that examines all transmission of... [30 May 2008]
PCI Compliance: The Importance of Securing Payment Information
White Paper The vast majority of these cases stemmed from data breaches associated with credit cards. In response, a federation of companies led by MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International set out to establish consistent data security measures for merchants... [13 May 2008]
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS)
White Paper Unfortunately, education institutions because of their open networks and occasionally inadequate security procedures are particularly vulnerable to hacking and other compromises of confidential data: of the 321 information security breaches... [13 May 2008]
PCI DSS Compliance: A Difficult But Necessary Journey
White Paper The need to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has been a rude wake up call for thousands of companies who believed their networks are secure and safe from security breaches. [16 Apr 2008]
The Threat to Data Center Hard Drives
White Paper This exposure has been amply demonstrated by a series of reported data center security breaches that prove storage network hard drives are not nearly as static or safe as once thought. In addition to online threats, sensitive information stored in... [11 Apr 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Using Windows Event Logging to Enhance Compliance and Security (Level 200)
White Paper This information can help to identify and resolve real-time security breaches such as root kit installations. This webcast demonstrates how to use the monitoring and reporting data that can automatically be collected with Microsoft Internet... [11 Apr 2008]
Application Architecture Essentials, Part 7: Application Architecture Security - Use Strategic Thinking to Ensure Your Organization's Security
White Paper Stay ahead of security breaches and help ensure the enterprise is highly secure. Most discussions of software security concentrate on the applications themselves or the data they contain. To survive at the architecture level, the IT specialists who... [09 Apr 2008]
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