There are many people who feel PCI is ultimately a thinly-veiled credit card company scheme that makes businesses police themselves- when really, it’s to pass on the liability when credit card companies’ lax security results in a breach. This pass-the-buck-for-blame policy often leads to major fines and priceless damages for smaller businesses, and the case [...]
Hackers unsuccessfully attempted to break into AT&T’s customer information database via its website with an automated script. I took some time to share my thoughts on what the intentions of the hackers might have been in terms of the type of data they were seeking. You can read Fahmida Rashid’s full article here, but here’s [...]
Join the Axis Team for a Webinar tomorrow, November 16th: Managing Sensitive and Confidential Data in Development & Test Environments Does your organization have production data in development & test environments? Do you worry about the privacy of your test data? Do you share your production data with off-shore vendors? If you answered “Yes” or [...]
Axis is on the move again! This week we’re exhibiting at the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference & Expo in Las Vegas: What: Handling healthcare claims and benefits can be challenging enough. A data breach or loss of private information can literally cripple a business. Check out the pioneering data masking product, DMsuite, and [...]
We have been explaining the risks of third party data access for years, and this week Ericka Chickowski of Dark Reading put together an excellent article on some of the costs and concerns associated with it: Data Breach Costs: Beware Vendor Contract Fine Print Organizations often end up paying the consequential costs of data breaches [...]
