Q4 2009

IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF THE BARKING SEAL ...

Securing Your Data with the PCI Data Security Standard
The largest credit card heist in history
In January 2009, Heartland Payment Systems disclosed a security breach that may have exposed as many as 100 million credit card numbers. Heartland is the largest credit card processing house in the world, and this loss took place even though the company had been audited and certified compliant with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) only the previous April.
 

Applied Trust Introduces New Vulnerability Reporting Scoring System
Applied Trust has introduced a new scoring system to provide a transparent view into how we assess vulnerabilities and the risk posed to organizations.