CISOs need to provide safe and efficient means to establish and enforce controls over documents, facilitating collaboration with others beyond the organization.
A Massachusetts hospital disclosed this week that records containing sensitive information, ranging from names and Social Security numbers to medical diagnoses and bank account data, was lost by a third-party contractor.
The author wades through NIST standards to help organizations select the best encryption technology to satisfy federal health care data protection mandates.
Bob Carr, CEO of Heartland Payment Systems, which suffered a record-breaking breach in 2008, has rolled out a new payment solution to its merchants that offers end-to-end encryption of sensitive transaction data. In an interview with SC Magazine's Deputy Editor Dan Kaplan, Carr discusses the new offering and offers an update on the company's recovery 18 months after it announced the breach, which exposed some 130 million records.
Check Point Software Technologies on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Waltham, Mass.-based security startup Liquid Machines. Israel-based CheckPoint made the acquisition to bolster its existing data security portfolio. Liquid Machines' technology is expected to be integrated into a future Check Point product suite, due out in 2011, that would enable the secure sharing of documents. Terms of the deal were not announced. — AM
American Express may be in hot water after a computer engineer discovered a portion of the card brand's website, which claims to be secure, is sending private information in clear text.
