RSI Security

Rethinking Your Cybersecurity

Category: Encryption

Discover essential encryption strategies—from cloud and email encryption to PCI DSS and CDE protection. Learn best practices to safeguard sensitive data across platforms and enhance your cybersecurity posture.

  • How to Boost Your Cyber Security With Email Encryption

    How to Boost Your Cyber Security With Email Encryption

    In the last decade, the world of cybercrime has been a growing industry. Per the Official 2019 Annual Cybercrime Report performed by the Herjavec Group, cybercrime is projected to create global costs of $6 trillion, a cost increase of 100% in just five years. In response to this growing and evolving threat, companies have been forced to look for vulnerabilities in their perimeter defenses, and then enact further security controls. 

    A common theme of such assessments has been that the most exposed area of any company is their email security. So, if you’re looking to revamp your cybersecurity, a great place to start is with your email. To that end, below we’ll discuss the particular threats shoddy email security poses to your business and recommended steps you can take to better protect it, including email encryption. 

    Read on to find out ways to improve your email security. 

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  • Challenges with Cloud Encryption

    Challenges with Cloud Encryption

    A recent study by Crowd Research Partners showed that 300,000 security professionals of LinkedIn deemed cloud encryption the most trusted security technology today. While these experts agree that encryption is the most effective approach to data security in the cloud, it can be challenging. There are so many types of encryption services available in the online marketplace. All kinds of organizations, from small to big businesses, find these services promising yet they can be confusing and complicated. 

    In this article, we will tackle cloud storage security issues with encryption and understand the challenges, issues, and mistakes that prove that encrypting data is not always the sole solution to prevent data breaches. 

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  • 5 Benefits of Email Encryption

    5 Benefits of Email Encryption

    Email revolutionized communication, especially at the workplace. Distributing faxes and digging through piles of mail to weed out the unimportant junk are no longer issues. While spam still exists, employees can now categorize emails, block content/senders, and even send out automatic responses. But with this reliance on email comes a responsibility to maintain the integrity of electronically distributed information. 

    Do you need to send sensitive data through email? Learn about the benefits of email encryption to get started today. 

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  • Importance of Encryption in the Business World

    Importance of Encryption in the Business World

    Modern businesses are storing and managing a majority of their personal and confidential information online in a cloud with an uninterrupted connection to the web. This makes it nearly impossible to conduct business in a way that keeps your company’s data from falling into the wrong hands. It is for precisely this reason that businesses are incorporating encryption into their cloud data security plans to keep their data private and safe, no matter its location.

    Companies that have yet to realize the benefits of cloud computing in business are beginning to learn that in order to make cloud storage safe, their network must be heavily encrypted. This doesn’t mean that your business needs government or military-grade encryption though; you just need to employ basic encryption solutions that can better protect your network data. Here are a few cybersecurity tips that showcase the importance of encryption and how your business can use cloud computing to your advantage without incurring too many risks from malicious threat actors.

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  • Protecting System Components in CDE through Encryption

    Protecting System Components in CDE through Encryption

    Encrypting your cardholder data environment (CDE) is of paramount importance if youre keen on not just protecting your customers card data, but also salvaging your organizations data security. If your company handles any amount of credit card information, it must comply with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards).

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  • Does a P2PE validated application also need to be validated against PA-DSS?

    Does a P2PE validated application also need to be validated against PA-DSS?

    There were 1,579 data breaches with over 178 million records exposed in 2017 alone. That averages about four data breaches a day for the entire year of 2017. Let that sink in for a second. That amounts to a nearly 45% overall increase over 2016 figures. Thankfully, there are ways that you can avoid a data breach, but these figures still lend themselves to have a bit of sticker shock. One way that companies can protect themselves from payment card data breaches is protecting their cardholder data environment (CDE) via PCI (Payment Card Industry) DSS (Data Security Standard) compliance. Any organization or merchant that accepts, transmits or stores any cardholder data must comply with PCI DSS.

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  • How Does Encrypted Cardholder Data Impact PCI DSS Scope?

    How Does Encrypted Cardholder Data Impact PCI DSS Scope?

    Merchants need to protect the cardholder data that they collect and encryption is one of the ways this is accomplished. Encryption by itself is not enough to place data out of scope for PCI DSS. This blog will cover what a cardholder data environment is, how encrypted data is part of that environment, and how encryption fits into the scope of PCI compliance.

     

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  • What Is Encryption? Types, Methods, and Compliance Requirements

    What Is Encryption? Types, Methods, and Compliance Requirements

    History shows that societies with the best cryptography dominate the world. From the ancient Persians, to Germany, to England and the USA, there is at least a strong correlation between the robustness of a societys information security and their resultant global influence & success.

    But what does that mean for you and your business? Are you aware that you probably use (or should use) encryption every single day? Data stored on your PCs hard drive is considered at rest – residing in one physical location for most of the time.

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