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Advanced Data Security: Safeguarding Your Business In The Digital Age  

VISTA InfoSec

Implement a solid backup strategy to renew your operations after disruptive incidents like ransomware encryptions, hardware failures, or accidental deletions. Encrypt Sensitive Data Scrambling sensitive data into indecipherable code shields it from prying eyes, even if intercepted. Also, apply need-to-know restrictions.

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Enhancing Data Security: How Exact Payments Protects Onboarding Data

Exact Payments

Our software partners transmit merchant data to our APIs using Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption. TLS encrypts data during transit and offers enhanced security features to combat man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks. Forward secrecy protects past communications against future compromises of secret keys or passwords.

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Blockchain-Based Age Verification 

Segpay

Blockchain technology offers a solution to these concerns, enabling age verification without collecting or storing sensitive data in a centralized database. How Blockchain-Based Age Verification Works After an initial identity check by a trusted authority, the user’s age is securely encrypted and stored on the blockchain.

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PCI DSS Requirement 2 – Changes from v3.2.1 to v4.0 Explained

VISTA InfoSec

For instance, web servers, database servers, and DNS should each be implemented on their own separate servers. This includes, but is not limited to, default wireless encryption keys, passwords, and SNMP community strings. Requirement and Testing Procedures 2.2.1 a Choose a sample of system components.

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What Is Data Tokenization and How Does It Work?

Stax

In 2022, there were 1802 instances of data compromise in America which affected 422 million people. There are various methods of enforcing data security, such as data masking, encryption, authentication, and data tokenization. Today, data is as important as currency and should be safeguarded as such.

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PCI DSS Requirement 3 – Changes from v3.2.1 to v4.0 Explained

VISTA InfoSec

This is achieved through a multi-pronged approach: Data Encryption: Requirement 3 mandates the use of strong cryptographic controls such as encryption for stored cardholder data. Key Management: Requirement 3 also covers the secure management of cryptographic keys used for encryption of cardholder data. PCI DSS v3.2.1

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PCI requirements and who needs to follow them

Basis Theory

Whether that is collecting credit card numbers to transmit with a payment gateway, placing details into a shared customer relationship management system, or storing card numbers in an encrypted database—all of this sensitive information must be protected according to the specifics of the PCI-DSS standard.

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