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Security Policy
Security Policy: Security policy is a definition of what it means to be secure for a system, organization or other entity. For an organization, it addresses the constraints on behavior of its members as well as constraints imposed on adversaries by mechanisms such as doors, locks, keys and walls. For systems, the security policy addresses constraints on functions and flow among them, constraints on access by external systems and adversaries including programs and access to data by people. (Source: Wikipedia)
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IT departments are facing three big issues when it comes to protecting the data created and stored on the systems they manage. First, the value of the data is often only realised when it is legitimately shared in some way; second, that sharing is increasingly taking place across public networks and third, the users doing the sharing are doing so on a growing diversity of devices in locations that are convenient to them.
Whilst the three issues help create mo ... read more
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The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (abbreviated to PCI DSS or commonly, just PCI) is a set of 12 requirements designed to secure and protect customer payment data. These 12 requirements of PCI DSS compliance can be quite daunting for any merchant. These are listed below:
Build and Maintain a Secure NetworkRequ ... read more
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Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission, has all but confirmed that the controversial anti-piracy bill ACTA may never see the light of day, and is unlikely to be passed as law.
Kroes was speaking at Friday's Digital Agenda Internet Freedom Re:publica conference "The European public on the Net” in Berlin. In her speech, she outlined the benefits of a free and open web to innovation and said that we must "recognise rights and responsibilities online – for an online ... read more
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Facebook have teamed up with five leading anti-virus vendors to create Facebook Antivirus Marketplace in an attempt to slow the spread of malware around the site. Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos and Symantec are the security firms involved and the new page offers cut price and free antivirus solutions to interested surfers.
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Experts
at Gartner have predicted that the IT trade will be unable to keep up with the
demand for support, due to the "consumerisation of IT” and the explosion in
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). The sheer volume of smartphones and tablets that
will be added to the work place will make it very difficult for both
departmental IT managers and IT support companies to keep up.
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problem, says Gartner, means that enterprises will have to ... read more
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Ultimately there is no escape from PCI. Whether you are a sophisticated multinational retailer or a small business that accepts card payments – online or offline, it is widely expected that much more rigorous enforcement will be commonplace from 2012.
Technologies and strategies for dealing with PCI are still catching up, although technology firms ar ... read more
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The annual threat report from Symantec shows that whilst email spam dropped last year when compared to 2010, malicious attacks and malware have surged. The take down of the Rustock botnet has had a direct impact on spam and this saw the incidence of pharmaceutical spam fall from 74% in 2010 to 40% in 2011.
The take down also showed an impact on the number of bot zombies, which fell from 4,500,000 to 3,065,030. However, this appeared to have absolutely no bearing on malware as un ... read more
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Every merchant that processes card payments and retains card payment details must adopt the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Failure to do so can result in merchants being subject to substantial fines, higher transaction costs or ultimately the suspension of banking facilities.
A single retailer, or merchant, can process millions payment card transactions each year. If an unauthorised route is found into that merchant’s sy ... read more
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