Whether you run a small, medium, or large business, credit card transactions are a common instrument with which customers purchase your products and services. Unfortunately, most small businesses are susceptible to cybercrime because of the low quality of their cybersecurity defenses.
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What Is the Purpose of Common Point of Purchase?
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Roles & Responsibilities of a vCISO: A Complete Guide
Security is a critical concern for organizations in about every industry because of its complexity and fast evolvement. Threats and vulnerabilities to the protection of information are increasing, and businesses continue to struggle with the evolving security regulations and landscape.
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A Comprehensive Guide on vCISO Services
The importance of ensuring an organization assigns the right people to protect itself is becoming more apparent with the continuous rise of security threats and cyberattacks. Recent trends and cybersecurity statistics from Riskbased revealed that over four billion business records were exposed in the opening half of last year.
Additionally, industry experts predict that the cybersecurity damage is expected to reach the $6 trillion mark by 2021, which is more than the losses caused by drug trafficking. This is primarily because of the higher levels of internet connectivity between businesses and insufficient enterprise-wide security.
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Is it Mandatory to Follow ADA Website Compliance Guidelines?
On July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law by America’s 43rd President, George W. Bush. The ADA – which produced the ADA compliant website guidelines – is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against physically challenged persons in all spheres of public living. It is a law that mandates public accommodation in schools, libraries, parks, and other public places.
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How to be ADA Website Compliant: A Step-By-Step Guide
The accrescent relationship between technology and compliance has brought significant changes to the business industry. Evolving market conditions, entry of new players, innovative technologies, and customer needs all play pivotal roles than ever before as requirements continue to grow and expand to create new demands of compliance functions.
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HITRUST Enforcement & Penalties: What You Need to Know
The HITRUST Act (Health Information Trust Alliance) establishes the framework for online healthcare information security, while also encouraging healthcare organizations to adopt digital patient files. Digitizing healthcare information makes it easier to share between approved organizations or personnel. Patients can also access their records online, eliminating the need for them to request paper copies. (more…)
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Top Cyber Hygiene Tips You Need to Know
Make your users change their passwords every three months. Require at least eight alphanumeric characters with at least one letter capitalized and one special character — not an exclamation point because everybody does that now. Change all of your default passwords in the same way. Change all of your default usernames, as well. Lock your building and your server rooms. Never use WEP on your WiFi. Secure it with WPA2 CCMP encryption. And please run updates and patches as soon as possible after they are released.
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What Is Considered PII Under GDPR?
There has often been confusion around what is Personally Identifiable Information under GDPR and how businesses can protect themselves against getting hit with a fine for lack of compliance. At times though it is difficult to distinguish what personally identifiable information (PII) is in general and what your business needs to do to remain compliant. Thankfully, we’ve created this comprehensive guide that can help you understand what PII is and how you can maintain compliance with GDPR’s rules that pertain to PII.
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The Future of Data Privacy in the US
In 2019, data privacy was a big topic of discussion for everyone from the regular Joe/Jane user to the Supreme Court and the European Union. Now that we have crossed over the bridge to 2020, data privacy in the U.S. is about to become just as important as data security.
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What Is the Current Situation With CCPA?
In an era where information can easily be captured, shared, and stored, the privacy of personal data is becoming an essential area of focus in today’s electronic world. While customers are starting to become savvier and educated about the Internet and privacy concerns, they are also becoming more distrustful about how organizations collect and use this information.