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Tokenization Broker for PCI DSS Compliance

This case study focuses on a large Canadian airline that covers all destinations in North America. It discusses the preparations the airline took towards Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) assessment and compliance. It explains how the airline built a system using Intel Expressway Tokenization...

PCI DSS Tokenization Buyer's Guide

In this paper, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) expert and QSA Walter Conway takes you on a deep dive tour of tokenization techniques and their merits. He also demystifies tokenization by discussing use cases, comparing it to encryption and providing various alternatives for implementing...

Using PCI DSS Criteria for PII Protection

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a widely accepted standard that applies internationally to any organization that accepts, captures, stores, transmits or processes credit and debit card data. Many organizations, however, have mandates to protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII). In...

Scanning Databases for Credit Card Information

Today's enterprise consists of numerous applications and a large number of them handle credit card data. As a result of standard processing, it is often the case that credit card data gets stored within file systems and databases in clear text - which poses a huge security risk. It is vital that all occurrences of...

Business-Driven Identity and Access Management: A Buyer's Guide

Identity and Access Management projects are among the most visible IT initiatives that enterprises undertake, since they involve so much interaction with line of business users. Despite their high-profile nature, many organizations unfortunately continue to struggle with their IAM programs, which can add to...

Governing User Access: Why Provisioning-Centric Approaches Fall Short

Organizations of all sizes continue to face ever-stricter regulatory and security requirements to protect their IT assets from unauthorized use. In response, many enterprises have embarked upon Identity and Access Management (IAM) initiatives, only to be disappointed with the cost, speed and effectiveness of their...

Reaping the "Trust Dividend" - Federal Agencies Can Move Services Online Now with an Identity Button (Like Facebook) - and Save Billions

The move of paper-based transactional services online doesn't create just cost savings and efficiencies. E-Gov creates a "Trust Dividend," thanks to the use of trustable online identities - issued by private enterprise, and relied upon by government. Making this switch now will help your agency achieve the benefits of...

Realizing the Promise of Health Information Exchange

Health information exchange (HIE) - the electronic movement of health-related information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards - has the potential to transform nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery in this country. Recent policies have helped fund major growth in the world of...

Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as if Your Business Depends on It

Virtually every business acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information (PII) about its customers, employees and partners. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or...

Gain a Competitive Edge: A Case Study on Cloud-based Email Encryption Solutions

A top concern for most financial institutions is how to add new members and strengthen current customer loyalty, especially when faced with competition from larger institutions and behemoths like Walmart. Read about how Altra Credit Union differentiated themselves with exceptional customer value, and increased their...

The Financial Institution's Guide to Securing Information - and Trust

From making payments online to depositing checks via iPhones and communicating through Facebook, financial institutions have introduced many new services to make their customers' lives easier. To maximize the impact of trends such as mobility and social media while minimizing their risk, institutions must be...

The Best Defense: Protecting Financial Data from External and Internal Threats

Whether it's from treacherous insiders stealing data or malicious cybercriminals hacking into company resources, financial institutions face risk from both inside and outside the organization. While each side of the coin poses unique threats, the financial sector can minimize the double-sided risks with very similar...

Rethinking Check Fraud: Taking a New Approach to an Old Fraud Type

Invisible to many is the fact that check fraud is growing despite decreasing item volume. Accounting for more than half of the $2 billion in deposit account fraud losses that U.S. banks suffered in 2008, check fraud presents a relatively easy attack vector for increasingly sophisticated and well organized...

Best Practices for Managing Financial Services Compliance

Financial service organizations are constantly grappling with ever-changing, ever-mounting regulatory obligations to supervise and archive all discoverable content. This white paper discusses the fundamentals of financial services compliance. It then puts forth a case for considering archiving and security as a...

Cyber 2020: Asserting Global Leadership in the Cyber Domain

How should the United States respond as global competitors expand their influence over the Internet and build cyber capabilities? An analysis of the Internet in 2020 shows that the United States must develop a strategy that focuses on more than technology to retain its cyberpower status. Read this white paper and...