After years of resistance in the U.S., a migration is well underway – moving from traditional magnetic stripe charge cards to EMV cards that contain an embedded integrated circuit. There is no doubt that the EMV technology – in wide use in other parts of the world – helps prevent fraud, but U.S. retailers and financial institutions have been hesitant to adapt the technology for a variety of reasons, namely the cost to switch out hardware, like point-of-sale terminals. Some of the experts interviewed for this new ebook from SC Magazine, say slow acceptance, incomplete commitment, limited ROI, and a lack of education on the EMV payment process is likely to stymie its adoption in the U.S. But, the tide may be turning for quicker adoption. A spate of high-profile data attacks that hit big merchants like Target and Home Depot have raised concerns about payments fraud, and merchants are surely eyeing October 2015, when new rules will shift the liability for most fraud losses in a face-to-face environment from the issuer of the consumer's card to the merchant.
There are many ways to do DevSecOps, and each organization — each security team, even — uses a different approach. Questions such as how many environments you have and the frequency of deployment of those environments are important in understanding how to integrate a security scanner into your DevSecOps machinery. The ultimate goal is speed […]
It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but security awareness is about much more than just dedicating a month to a few activities. Security awareness is a journey, requiring motivation along the way. And culture. Especially culture.That’s the point Proofpoint Cybersecurity Evangelist Brian Reed drove home in a recent appearance on Business Security Weekly.“If your security awareness program […]
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