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Businesses Struggle to Secure Customer Data, Report Finds

A survey by the the Ponemon Institute and security company Imperva finds only 28 percent of smaller companies comply with the Payment Card Industrys (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), as opposed to 70 percent of larger companies.

Business security firm Imperva and the Ponemon Institute
announced the findings of a survey across more than 500 U.S. and multinational
IT security practitioners showing that, despite the Payment Card Industrys
(PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), companies still struggle with data…


Businesses Struggle to Secure Customer Data, Report Finds

A survey by the the Ponemon Institute and security company Imperva finds only 28 percent of smaller companies comply with the Payment Card Industrys (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), as opposed to 70 percent of larger companies.

Business security firm Imperva and the Ponemon Institute
announced the findings of a survey across more than 500 U.S. and
multinational
IT security practitioners showing that, despite the Payment Card
Industrys Data Security Standard, companies still struggle with data
security,…


Is Cloud Computing Secure? Prove It

Organizations need to take care to ensure that applications in the cloud are secure and compliant–and can be proven as such. Experts say the public cloud might not be suitable for some applications right now, but that providers will face increasing pressure to develop systems that can be used securely in a cloud computing environment.
– The
buzz around cloud computing is intense, but that buzz rarely addresses the
question of whether cloud computing is safe or whether you can prove that its
safe.
“Is cloud computing ready for prime time?” asked
Amy DeCarlo, principal analyst for managed IT services at Current Analysis. “I
w…


Enterprises Need to Secure Data During Application Development

A survey by the Ponemon Institute underscores that many application testers and developers are using real production data without proper safeguards. Experts say it’s time for a change.
– Sometimes it doesnt take an external hacker to reveal customer data.
Often, it happens during the application development process
itself.
That is because, according to a recent survey from the Ponemon
Institute, many organizations use production data during their development and testing proce…