I spent a few days in Quito, Ecuador this week after visiting Panama. This is another emerging market with a strong focus on government, financial services, and telecom. Additionally, Ecuador has a very robust oil industry. The organizations responsible for petroleum are actually run by their government. This is a common occurrence in emerging markets. Read more…
Last month, one of the biggest names in digital and mobile commerce, Global Payments, confirmed a significant security breach affecting 1.5 million credit card holders. Within days, Visa dropped the company from its list of PCI compliant providers. From large enterprises to small online retailers, compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is Read more…
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In this week’s blog we continue our channel recognition momentum, showcase an outstanding new SMB tool, talk about the short quarter, and provide resources to learn more about McAfee’s acquisition of Nitro Security, a new certification service, where to find free-trials of McAfee SaaS, get access to Partner Summit keynotes, and highlights from our Q3 Read more…
Tags: Alex Thurber, McAfee Channel, McAfee Channel Partner, McAfee Labs, McAfee Labs Q3 Threat Report, McAfee Partner Summit, mobile malware, NitroSecurity, PCI, PCI DSS, SaaS, SMB, SMB Advisor Tool
Merchants and processors that do business with the residents of Washington State will have to beware of HB1140 which amends Washington’s breach notice law. Without going into the details of this legislation the intent was to encourage financial instituations to re-issue credit and debit cards to consumers when appropriate upon the recognition of possible data Read more…
Tags: HB1140, McAfee, PCI, PCI Compliance, PCI DSS
The last couple of months have seen a flurry of announcements and updates to the Payment Card Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). So, what is the impact of these changes and announcements? Certainly, it appears that PCI is going to be at the forefront of the minds of retailers and is not going to lessen Read more…
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