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Tripwire PCI DSS Solutions: Automated, Continuous Compliance

The credit card industry has stepped up its pressure for banks, merchants and other service providers to increase data security. But now, compliance is no longer voluntary; it is a requirement, and failure to meet PCI DSS standards can result in monetary penalties. Fortunately, these standards amount to best practices,...

Tags: Compliance, Decision Support System, Tripwire, Credit Card Industry, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2008-09-11

Credit Scoring With a Data Mining Approach Based on Support Vector Machines

The credit card industry has been growing rapidly recently, and thus huge numbers of consumers' credit data are collected by the credit department of the bank. The credit scoring manager often evaluates the consumer's credit with intuitive experience. However, with the support of the credit classification model, the manager can...

Tags: Credit Score, Applicant, Reed Elsevier Inc., Vector Corp., Data Mining, Credit Card Industry, Support Vector Machine Classification, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales

White papers 2007-03-29

Additional Resources

End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations

In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...

Tags: PCI, Organization, Data Breach, PCI DSS, Encryption Key, encryption, security, Paul Meadowcroft Thales, Special to ZDNet, Paul Meadowcroft, Thales, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-11

eAuthorize 5.1 (Mac)

Process credit cards or electronic checks right from within your FileMaker solutions. You can enhance your solutions by providing a direct connection to the trillion-dollar industry of electronic transactions. Simply by adding one field and one relationship, developers are able to add credit card authorization to any solution. This is...

Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Credit Card, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales

Software downloads 2009-10-31

SecretBox 2.0.2 (Mac)

You can use SecretBox to store all sorts of information : Credit Card details, SSN numbers, Software Licenses, e-mail account details, product registration codes and serial numbers. All are easily stored in SecretBox's flexible database. Most people will use SecretBox for personal use, but businesses can also use SecretBox for...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Software License, app4Mac, SecretBox 2.0.2, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-10-30

TechGuard keeps spam and botnets at bay with one-click, enterprise-level security for SMBs, SOHOs

One of the most difficult things for a small or medium business to do is set up a security scheme that's effective, affordable and intelligible to the average employee. Chesterfield, Mo. and Baltimore, Md.-based TechGuard is attempting to address that problem by bringing its enterprise and government-level...

Tags: Security, Firewall, Network, SOHO, Small And Medium Business, TechGuard, SM, Smb/Sme, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-13

FOWA 2009: Microsoft Surface 'proof of concept' actually pointless

Grats on being closed mindedWell done for putting someone down, your price point argument is fair but doesn't negate the number of possible uses of the surface device, which frankly are only limited by imagination, something that seems to be questionable for you.How do you define genuine uses? That sentence...

Tags: Tablets, FOWA 2009, Microsoft Surface, proof of concept, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Fraud in the U.S. Payments Industry: Fraud Mitigation and Prevention Measures in Use and Chip Card Technology Impact on Fraud

The white paper provides an overview of current fraud levels in the U.S. and of projected trends based on anticipated changes to the payments infrastructure. It focuses on credit and debit card fraud, which accounts for the vast majority of payment fraud in the U.S. Based on a cross-section of...

Tags: Payment, Industry, Fraud, Chip, Smart Card Alliance, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Finance

White papers 2009-10-01

What Is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)?

The processor typically sends out one or more letters, and follows up with phone calls. In the authors interviews with merchants, they usually tell the processor as little as possible. The processor shares the desire to get the task completed as quickly as possible. As a result, the merchants often...

Tags: Payment, PCI, Industry, Data Security, Merchant, Kreck Design Solutions, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2009-09-16

Adapting to a New Future: Impact of the Credit CARD Act of 2009 on Financial Institutions

Consistent with the current government focus on enhancing consumer protection, the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (Credit CARD Act of 2009) brings sea changes to the credit card industry. Forward-looking financial services institutions are viewing these shifts not as a reactive compliance and operational exercise, but...

Tags: Financial, Credit Card, Financial Services Institution, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Finance

White papers 2009-09-12

Citizens Financial sued for insufficient E-Banking security

If a fraudulent transaction ever takes place on one of your bank accounts due to their compromise, who's to blame - the bank, for not providing you as a customer with state-of-the-art security mechanisms that could have prevented it, or you, as a customer whose insecure online behavior led to...

Tags: Bank, Citizens LLC, Electronic Banking, Financial, Two-factor Authentication, Online Banking, Banking, Security Administration, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-10

BitDefender Internet Security 2010 (Windows)

Confidently download, share and open files from friends, family, co-workers - and even total strangers. Protects against viruses and other malware using industry-leading technology. Scans all Web, e-mail and instant messaging traffic in real-time. Provides an unmatched detection rate of new threats based on two different proactive technologies. Blocks spyware...

Tags: Web, Bitdefender, Credit Card, IM, Microsoft Windows, Softwin, Instant Messaging, E-mail, Channel Management, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Sales

Software downloads 2009-09-03

BitDefender Antivirus 2010 (Windows)

Confidently download, share and open files from friends, family, co-workers - and even total strangers. Protects against viruses and other malware using industry-leading technology. Scans all Web, e-mail and instant messaging traffic in real-time. Provides an unmatched detection rate of new threats based on two different proactive technologies. Blocks spyware...

Tags: Web, Bitdefender, Credit Card, IM, Microsoft Windows, Softwin, Instant Messaging, E-mail, Channel Management, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Sales

Software downloads 2009-09-03

BitDefender Total Security 2010 (Windows)

Confidently download, share and open files from friends, family, co-workers - and even total strangers. Protects against viruses and other malware using industry-leading technology. Scans all Web, e-mail and instant messaging traffic in real-time. Provides an unmatched detection rate of new threats based on two different proactive technologies. Blocks spyware...

Tags: Security, Web, Bitdefender, Credit Card, IM, Microsoft Windows, Softwin, Instant Messaging, E-mail, Channel Management, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Sales

Software downloads 2009-09-03

Achieving PCI Compliance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

The payment card industry data security standard PCI DSS provides best practice security standards that protect systems that handle credit and debit card data. Red Hat solutions are PCI-compliant, with plans to expand and enhance systems and tools that enable adherence to PCI standards and the use of innovative...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux, Red Hat Inc., PCI, Open Source, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-09-01

Will the FCC's inquiries about wireless market be a waste of time?

The wireless industry is about to find out what it's like to be under Washington's microscope. The FCC this week announced efforts to further study competitive landscape of the mobile wireless market and determine whether consumers have the necessary information they need to make informed decisions about mobile phones and...

Tags: FCC, Phone, Washington, Mobile, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Wireless, Wireless Industry, Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless And Mobility, Government, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-28

Joe Biden and the dawn of the MediNet

what a waste, just model VA Hospitalsthey have one of the most efficient medical records on the planet. HIEThese funds are not to develop electronic medical records (your right, the VA's VISTA system is very good - and I am a strong advocate of open source solutions) This is...

Tags: Government, Insurance, Vertical industries, MediNet, Joe Biden, dawn, medical record, Hie

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

News to know: Pixie; Google Books; Time Warner-YouTube; PayPal; iLike

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Next Palm webOS-ready phone, Eos 'Pixie', to arrive Oct. 2010 Richard Koman: Lawyer files a full-throated attack...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., PayPal, Canon Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Word, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Internet

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Alleged TJX hacker spun a wide web of cybercrime

Just goes to show no one's doing their homeworkWe keep pushing computerized systems out further and further into important aspects of our lives, and yet the security portion isn't baked in and is really an afterthought. Put a national security slant on all of this, and the possibilities are...

Tags: Hacking, PCI Standard, wide Web, hacker, cybercrime, Web, security

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Fake ATM, skimmers found in Las Vegas hotels

Fake ATM, skimmers found in Las Vegas hotelsThey probally enjoyed the ironyof "hacking" the hackers.If the cops find who did it, the only punishment they should get...... is having their names released to the public.Then we can sit back and watch their lives be destroyed by the eLIt3 hax0r5.Um, one...

Tags: Network technology, Hacking, skimmer, Las Vegas Hotels, ATM

Discussion threads 2009-08-03