Archive for the ‘Data Protection’ Category

Ed’s monthly post for TechNewsWorld/eCommerce Times takes a look at encryption and why stopping at laptops leaves data exposed.

Plenty of corporate IT departments have locked up the data on their company-owned laptops with encryption technologies, as well they should. The consequences of unencrypted data on a device that can so easily be stolen could be devastating. However, laptops aren’t they only devices that can go missing. If you have the technology to encrypt your laptops, why not extend it further?

Rob Westervelt interviewed Diana for a piece on Tokenization for PCI Compliance

“It’s a great technology overall, but merchants have to make sure there’s no other instances of PAN data around to really get the full benefit,” Kelley said, adding that PAN data can slip into log files and volatile memory.