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Data Breaches 101: What They Are And How To Prevent Them

VISTA InfoSec

A data breach could ruin your business overnight. Are you prepared to deal with regulatory fines, lawsuits, costly investigations, disrupted operations, and destroyed trust while cybercriminals profit freely from stolen data? That’s the harsh aftermath companies face today following high-profile breaches.

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Enhancing Data Security: How Exact Payments Protects Onboarding Data

Exact Payments

By Jeremy Smillie, VP of DevSecOps at Exact Payments In an era where data breaches are not just threats but realities, protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is more crucial than ever. At Exact Payments, we understand the magnitude of the responsibility of handling such sensitive data.

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Generative AI Unleashed: Transforming Industries with Cutting-Edge Innovation

Segpay

Tokenization: Generative AI contributes to the implementation of tokenization, a technique that replaces sensitive data, such as credit card numbers, with unique tokens. These tokens are generated for each transaction, reducing the risk of data breaches. This provides digital payment methods with an additional level of security.

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Hacker Tracker: Yahoo In Hot Water, Selfie Security Risks, US Data Breaches Surge

PYMNTS

Eric Chiu, cofounder and president of HyTrust , joined this week’s Hacker Tracker to share insights on the SEC examining the Yahoo breaches, why a selfie app may cause more harm than good and how the U.S. Yahoo disclosed a breach of 500 million users’ data in Sept. 2013 had compromised even more user data.

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How to Safeguard Your Business from Cyber Frauds

Payment Savvy

Cyber frauds can take place in several forms, including: Identity theft is when an attacker gets personal information about an individual and uses it to commit fraud without their consent. Data encryption is the most effective way of protecting yourself from cyber fraud. Understand the Different Cyber Frauds.

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The 12 PCI DSS Requirements to Ensure PCI Compliance

Stax

Compliance with PCI Data Security Standard regulations prevents shortcomings and vulnerabilities in payment processing, thereby reducing the risk of fraud, identity theft, and cyberattacks. TL;DR PCI DSS is a set of protocols to be followed by companies that store, process, and transmit cardholder data.

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