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Ponemon survey shows majority of companies use real, sensitive customer data to develop and test applications, not realizing the information is vulnerable to breaches.
The retail industry advocates keeping a bare minimum of customer financial information. Just enough to still serve your customers without providing potential thieves what they need.
If you want to transact business with credit cards, you have to follow the rules: the payment card industry security standards. Companies that don't comply face fines or worse. So why aren't more mid-market merchants already in compliance?
Facebook's miscue with a purchase-tracking program is a privacy problem, a reminder to users and businesses to watch their data. But analysts expect the social network's popularity to continue.
Companies must begin addressing security proactively, not as an afterthought
Trust cited as the top reason for keeping separate email accounts
An open-source algorithm called Author-Topic is now being investigated for analyzing corporate e-mail to flag employee behavior and attitudes.
Most identity theft discovered by individuals through their financial activity
A new application from intelligent notification vendor MIR3 promises to enable IT administrators to use an iPhone to manage, send and receive notifications from anywhere there's connectivity. The move suggests Apple's mobile phone may break
Nearly 80 percent of study participants allow their mobile workers remote access to data, but less than one-third have implemented any security awareness training for those staffers.
A White House call for more product inspections and recall authority would add a layer of supply chain complexity and regulatory compliance for many IT leaders.
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