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COMPANY NEWS:  Banks and fintechs set to deliver secure, frictionless digital payment experiences through advanced tokenisation technology

With the rapid growth of cloud technology in recent years, organizations have developed larger and more complex attack surfaces than ever. Traditional security measures are often ineffective against constantly evolving threats in an increasingly convoluted digital landscape. Fortunately, a number of strategies and tools have been designed specifically to address this shift in cybersecurity needs.

With Cisco Secure Application on the Cisco Observability Platform, customers have more flexibility and choice when it comes to tackling their most difficult security challenges.

The API Security product introduced by content delivery network and cloud provider Akamai Technologies has achieved the latest Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliance.

COMPANY NEWS: Dubber, a leading global solution provider of unified call recording and conversational intelligence today launched Dubber PCI Comply for Amazon Connect. Dubber PCI Comply offers any business seeking to process credit card information a cost-effective and easy to deploy cloud-native solution to achieve efficient PCI DSS compliance for any communication modality on Amazon Connect, including contact centre, voice, IVR, and chat.

GUEST OPINION: Migrating to the cloud is no longer a forward looking trend: it's the industry mainstream, with about 70% of production applications running in the cloud. Clearly, cloud security is becoming synonymous with cybersecurity.

ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, has announced the addition of data loss prevention for endpoints, anti-ransomware, and endpoint compliance capabilities to its unified endpoint management (UEM) solution, Desktop Central.

GUEST OPINION: For many organisations, creating an effective data protection strategy to support the adoption of remote work and cloud infrastructure is becoming increasingly urgent.

Company News: Snowflake, the data cloud company, today announced it has completed an Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment confirming that Snowflake's Data Cloud has achieved the Australian Government security status of 'Protected' on selected deployments.

Payment security compliance has declined for the second year in a row, with organisations based in the Americas lagging behind worldwide counterparts, including the Asia Pacific region, according to a new report from US telco Verizon which reveals that only 1 in 3 companies globally make the grade on compliance and just 1 in 5 in the Americas.

A report on card payment security issued by the US company Verizon has revealed that almost half the organisations surveyed for the 2017 report were not compliant with all the regulations laid down for secure transactions.

If you handle money via credit/debt/EFTPOS/cards you need to comply with the demanding security requirements of the new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) updated in April 2015.

Too many businesses that use the PCI security standard put themselves at risk because of a failure to maintain ongoing compliance, says a new report.

Ever left a credit card behind at a restaurant or pub? A new Aussie smartphone app called Clipp solves that.

How are breaches detected and what should be done to assist the process?  Mark Goudie from Verizon offers some thoughts.

At the end of yesterday's report, it was speculated that the Global Payments breach represented only part of the story.  This is becoming a strong probability.

Earlier reports of a breach involving 10 million credit cards were somewhat exaggerated - it was only 1.5 million.

BalaBit unveiled Reliable Log Transfer Protocol (RLTP)TM technology to help companies achieve 'Zero Message Loss' and comply with even the most stringent regulations. The syslog-ng trusted logging solution became the de-facto industry standard for logging within the last decade and is now used by 650 000 companies world-wide

Following news of the hack of the Stratfor site, the perpetrators have released extensive information on every subscriber (paid or otherwise) of Stratfor's on-line services.

The security consultancy Stratfor has suffered an embarrassing hack.  If Anonymous is correct, the embarrassment may last some time to come.