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Advanced Data Security: Safeguarding Your Business In The Digital Age  

VISTA InfoSec

Keep Software And Systems Updated Software updates fortify your digital defenses, patching security loopholes that cyber crooks exploit. Routinely scan for new security patches and implement them after thorough testing. These obsolete programs lack ongoing network security updates, making them low-hanging fruit for breaches.

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Understanding POS Security: Protecting Your Business and Customer Data

VISTA InfoSec

Given this recent wave of cyberattacks, all small businesses must do their part to secure their Point of Sale (POS) systems from unauthorized parties. Let’s look at some best practices you’ll want to implement to keep payment data safe from cybercriminals: 1.

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Security and Compliance triumphs: Vodafone Idea Leads India with SOC 2 Type 2 Attestation

VISTA InfoSec

This accomplishment not only underscores the company’s commitment to stringent security standards but also sets a benchmark for the entire industry. It focuses on controls related to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of data.

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Full PCI compliance dips while security threats mount

Payments Source

It's a perplexing problem for those developing and instituting Payment Card Industry data security standards: Even as threats rise, the number of organizations that fully comply continues to drop.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

From data security to generative AI, read the report to learn what developers care about including: Why organizations choose to build or buy analytics How prepared organizations are in 2024 to use predictive analytics & generative AI Leading market factors driving embedded analytics decision-making

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Coronavirus, data security changing how teachers handle classroom expenses

Payments Source

When the coronavirus pandemic forced teachers and students to move classroom learning online this year, school districts and educators suddenly faced a raft of challenges around handling new expenses for tools needed for cyber education.

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Important Updates Announced for Merchants Validating to Self-Assessment Questionnaire A

PCI Security Standards

In response to stakeholder feedback regarding the complexity of implementing the new e-commerce security Requirements 6.4.3 in PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0.1, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has announced important modifications for merchants validating to Self-Assessment Questionnaire A (SAQ A).

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