The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) oversees several certification programs for service organizations, including those for software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. If clients are uncertain about the SaaS company’s security…
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Data centers store and share companies’ information—this includes any sensitive data that could cause damage to the company if they were breached. As such, it’s a critical area companies must…
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Companies that store, process, or transmit credit card data must comply with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS). However, implementing the required controls and reporting on them…
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The fields of business continuity and disaster recovery, sometimes combined into a unified business continuity & disaster recovery program, represent different but complementary parts of incident response management. These strategies…
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Service organizations seek out SOC reports to prove to current and future clients that any data trusted with the service organization is safe. SOC 2 reports, in particular, provide insights…
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Cyberdefense programs need to develop methods for ensuring security across their endpoints, such as individual computers and smart devices. One impactful approach is patch management, the practice of scanning for…
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One of the most widely applicable regulatory compliance frameworks is the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS).
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Most companies that process payments via credit cards must comply with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). Achieving compliance can incur high costs—as can failing to comply.
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A business’s cybersecurity infrastructure must meet its regulatory compliance requirements. One compliance framework that applies to businesses in nearly every industry is the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard…
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Regardless of the maturity and sophistication of your cybersecurity infrastructure, your IT environment’s safety depends on your employees’ threat awareness and cultivated habits that provide a critical element of deterrence.