With smartphones and social media platforms becoming a major means of communication between friends, family and co-workers, we have come to appreciate the evolution of mobile applications. With over 500,000 apps on iPhone, 350,000 on Android and thousands more on other operating systems, there are many different apps out there that offer many different services [...]
Do you know what level of PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance your company falls under? Or even what merchant type best categorizes your payment process? Here’s your guide to the four different levels of PCI compliance as mandated by the major payment card brands, Visa and Mastercard, as well as action items for each: Level [...]
Strafor, the latest target of hackers, lost credit cardholder data in December that was released to the public later that month. The data belonged to thousands of customers, including politicians, military officers, government officials and business executives. Stratfor is a private international affairs research firm that may have not encrypted data before storing it in [...]
Protecting your clients’ personal data has always been important element of trust between a company and its customers. When dealing with electronic transactions, it becomes an issue of card issuers not only trying to instill trust in payments done online, but protect themselves against fraud and losses due to fraud. While there haven’t been too [...]
We’ve completed a number of audits over the years. Each audit results in a report such as HIPAA, SAS 70, SSAE 16, SOC 1/SOC 3 and PCI. It’s extremely expensive to do these audits well. The obvious costs are the auditors, but you can’t overlook the staff time and technology. We estimate it takes a few hundred hours [...]
One of the main concerns with cloud computing is security – when it comes to national industry security compliance standards such as PCI DSS or HIPAA, additional precautions must be taken in order to protect confidential data during transmission. While PCI compliance calls for very specific requirements to protect customer cardholder data, it is possible [...]
How much could a data breach incident cost your company? Based on the results of The Ponemon Institute’s recent 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach, breach incidents are increasing both in direct and indirect costs. The healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial and communications industries are shouldering the greatest expense per record breach. On average, [...]
Online Tech is heading to Las Vegas for the 2012 Annual HIMSS Conference. With 30,000 attendees, HIMSS 12 is one of the largest healthcare IT and management systems conferences in the world.
If you're going to be there too, be sure to stop by Booth #13528!
2012 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition
February 20-24, 2012
Venetian Sands Expo Center
