Top Tips to be GRC-Ready in 2011
According to industry experts, 2011 is the year when IT firms will realize that expensive risk management and compliance solutions may not provide the desired levels of security. Integration and alignment of disparate compliance initiatives for enhanced security controls will therefore assume immense importance. Chris Mclean, Forrester research analyst, in his report Governance, Risk and [...]
AG’s Office Scores Settlement for Unparalleled Security Breach: First of its Kind
The first action by a state Attorney General for violation of HIPAA (after HITECH authorized State Attorneys General to enforce HIPAA) has resulted in an unprecedented money settlement with the AG’s office. The case involved unreported loss of a compact disk by Health Net containing private medical records, social security numbers and financial information. While [...]
New Security Standard for SMBs to Protect Cardholder Information
You must have read the news about a new security standard for SMBs- Visa changes rules for SMBs: be PCI DSS compliant or face penalties- Primarily focusing on safeguarding customers_blank’ confidential data after making payment using a credit card, this new security standard requires SMBs accepting credit/ debit card payments to enroll into the PCI [...]
Your Company needs Information Security Monitoring and Integrated GRC
Did you know :
Approximately 500 million records containing personal identifying information of United States residents stored in government and corporate databases was either lost or stolen in the last 5 years?
Various other corporations lost US$1 Trillion worldwide as a result of data loss, accidental or malicious?
Costs from the largest computer data breach in corporate history [...]
