Protecting payment card data is essential in all environments, including when card data is taken over the telephone. Areas of organizations that interact with sensitive data in a telephone-based environment are particularly susceptible to fraud or theft of cardholder data. As such, protecting telephone-based payment card data is essential for all businesses that conduct transactions over the phone.
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What Is PAN Data And Why Is It Important?
The act of storing primary account numbers (PANs) has already had a profound effect on network security for a plethora of organizations. Massive data breaches have ensued over the years based on companies choosing to store PANs on their servers for ease of access.
Many companies who have been inflicted by a data breach use this excuse of consumer convenience in their choice to store PAN data on their network. These companies who use this excuse also are not Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant as the PCI DSS requires that merchants never store track data, for any reason.
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How to Build an Effective Vulnerability Management Program
Vulnerabilities can wreak havoc on your network if you don’t take the necessary precautions to combat them. Having a robust cybersecurity program in place that is focused on vulnerability management can help your organization stay on top of potential security risks before they happen.
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What Is Patch Management?
Security measures are never foolproof. No matter how many precautions companies and users take, threat actors always find a new point of entry to exploit. Identifying and fixing vulnerabilities requires time, and there lies one of the greatest challenges — deploying sound fixes within a tight time constraint.
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Patch Management Best Practices
Cybersecurity threats are constantly escalating and the current landscape means the majority of successful cyber attacks exploit well-known vulnerabilities that can lead to system breaches and loss of sensitive information. The time between discovery of a system vulnerability and the start of malicious exploits is getting shorter, often a matter of hours before attempted attacks. Increasingly complex enterprise networks, use of bring your own device (BYOD) and other protocols for higher productivity, and the broader array of applications and devices leveraged for business use also provide a larger target for compromise.
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IT Security Frameworks: What You Need To Know
Keeping hackers, cybercriminals, and malicious actors out of your critical systems is a constant battle. But just like any king might defend his castle, you need some kind of overall plan to seal off all the entry points that hackers might look to exploit. Which is exactly why having an Information Technology (IT) security framework is so important.
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Cyber Security Awareness Training Topics
There are many things that put your network at risk. The primary thing people tend to think about is “The Bad Guys.” Hackers. Corporate espionage. Saboteurs. There is also the concern of physical risks like fire, flooding, and earthquake. You may be surprised to learn that the number one risk to your network, by a lot, is your own employees.
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Cyber Security Training For Employees
Having a solid cybersecurity defense plan is arguably just as important as having a robust offense. Case in point, a recent Experian report found that nearly two-thirds (66%) of the data protection and privacy training professionals that were surveyed labeled their employees as the weakest link when attempting to safeguard their organization from cyber threats. Even though tedious cybersecurity tasks are becoming automated, it’s still best to provide online security awareness training for employees to prevent future issues for your company’s security. Being prepared when that time comes is paramount to the continued success of your organization and requires that an ironclad training program be conceptualized and implemented before threats become breaches. With this in mind, let’s review the importance of cybersecurity awareness training and how you can build an organization that is compliant and focused on defending against cyber threats.
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Cybersecurity Awareness Training?
Cybersecurity in today’s world is much more than just enabling your firewall or downloading the latest malware patch. The amount (and complexity) of systems, software, and technologies that companies of all stripes now use makes it imperative that all employees, top-to-bottom, are aware of the cybersecurity risks of all their day-to-day activities.
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What Are the Different Managed Vulnerability Services Available?
At some point, every business has to ask the questions. How safe is my network and the data I have stored on it? How will it affect my business if there is a breach or data loss? How will I recover in either event? How well do I even understand these issues?