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Thales: Trust in the cloud or trust in the phone – what next for mobile payments?

Will the arrival of phone based payments act as a revolutionary or evolutionary force?

CARTES, Paris, France: Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, looks at the approaches for the successful mass adoption of mobile payments among issuers, card schemes, acquirers, merchants and consumers and asks whether the arrival of emerging mobile payment technologies and increasingly secure cloud services will act as a revolutionary or evolutionary force?

: ZOE DAVIES, REALWIRE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH VIGILANCE; InfoSecurity; Posted On Thursday, 08 November 2012 13:40

Largest-ever US public sector cyber attack is warning on the criminal value of customer credentials

The recent, and largest, cyber attack ever on a state government in the US, shows that attacks on third-party credentials - which can be used in identity theft frauds - are becoming more and more commonplace.

: CATHERINE EYRES; InfoSecurity; Posted On Thursday, 08 November 2012 13:29

ISACA and AICPA issue SOC 2 User Guide

London, UK: ISACA, a global IT association with 100,000 members in 180 countries, teamed up with the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) to issue a user guide on Service Organization Control ReportsSM that help evaluate risk, reliability and compliance issues regarding outsourced tasks or functions. The guide, titled SOC 2SM User Guide for Report on Controls at a Service Organization Relevant to Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality or Privacy.

: HANNAH RAFFERTY; InfoSecurity; Posted On Thursday, 08 November 2012 13:20

Varonis: Shift in FTC consumer privacy policy may signal new laws in US

While the EU is in the process of revising their consumer privacy policies, especially with respect to PII, the US is beginning to rethink its definition of personal data. Policy makers at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) earlier in the year released Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change. If you hadn’t read this for your homework assignment, don’t worry, Varonis has the key take-aways and what it might mean for companies going forward.