For the second time in four months, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has pushed back the implementation of its new data protection law - one of the toughest in the nation.
Yet even with the new deadline of January 2010, many of the businesses impacted by these stringent data protection requirements won't be...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the stabilization of the financial system is key to the economic recovery, both here in the U.S. and globally.
The 17th bank to fail in 2009 was Freedom Bank of Georgia. The Commerce, GA-based bank was closed on Friday by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance.
A bill introduced in Congress would boost the FDIC's ability to request as much as $500 billion from the government to help boost its deposit insurance fund.
Because of the economic conditions, risks to organizations - from the inside and out - are at a critical high. Risk managers at public and private organizations are forced to make careful decisions on how to invest scarce resources.
In an exclusive interview, Joe Restoule, President of the Risk and Insurance...
There are a record high 12.5 million people unemployed in this country. The government report today shows the jobless rate in February hit 8.1 percent, bringing total job losses over the last six months to more than 3.3 million. The unemployment rate has soared to its highest level in 25 years.
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) maintains a list of individuals and organizations that represent security risks to the U.S., and businesses are required to screen their customers and transactions against this list.
But how does one filter correctly and interpret aliases properly to stay...
President Obama created the post of federal Chief Information Officer on Thursday, and named Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer of Washington, D.C., to job.
Over the years, security and compliance experts at ReymannGroup have performed numerous compliance reviews and risk assessments. Through these engagements and other forums, we have engaged hundreds of executives in discussions about the need for a comprehensive and strategic approach to data security and compliance....
The modern corporation is using web based infrastructures in many ways to conduct business across the enterprise and around the globe. Whether it is with
customers, partners or employees, the Internet provides instant access and global reach at a fraction of the cost of traditional channels.
However, doing...
Two more banks were closed on Friday, bringing the total number of banks that have failed so far in 2009 to16.
The Security Savings Bank, Henderson, NV was closed by the Nevada Financial Institutions Division. The FDIC, as receiver, sold the deposits of the failed bank to the Bank of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV. Security...
Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) may be the only "new" data breach, after all.
A week after at least two banking institutions and a state banking association reported a new data breach that had been announced to them by Visa, the credit card company now is saying that its recent alerts to card issuers were actually...
There's something new in the air that retailers, especially the directors of information technology (IT) operations at the store, are starting to research and implement called "application whitelisting". This technology is being presented as the panacea for Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance, and is being welcomed...
Many business activities require access to real production data, but there are equally many that do not. Data masking secures enterprise data by eliminating sensitive information, while maintaining data realism and integrity. Many Fortune 500 companies have already integrated data masking into their PCI DSS and GLBA...
Regulatory change is coming - fueled by the ever present news of breaches within the credit card payment networks degrading the faith in today's financial institutions. A new approach is needed to secure, make compliance easier, and enhance the operating efficiency for critical financial datacenters and those...
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