PCI compliance applies to businesses of all sizes: In fact, the PCI Council sets compliance standards according to how many card-based transactions a business handles each year. There are four merchant levels are Small businesses usually fall under level four. If you’re not sure what level your business falls into, your point-of-sale (POS) reports may be able to tell you.
To say that data governance and data compliance are rapidly becoming areas of immense strategic importance for businesses would be an understatement. Governments worldwide already have data protection laws in place or are busy drafting these laws. Moreover, users have become increasingly aware and educated about their rights online, especially regarding what data businesses can collect about them.
Water Sector Cybersecurity Requirements Policymakers and regulators in Washington are bringing their attention now to water utilities’ cybersecurity. Last month, the White House announced it was expanding its public-private cybersecurity partnership to the water sector. Separately, in December of 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an evaluation of regulations related to the public water system’s cybersecurity, which will change in April.
In our second episode, we speak with Elastic’s Product Marketing Director James Spiteri, an experienced security practitioner turned product marketer with a passion for making security accessible and easy for anyone and everyone.
Today organizations have been able to recognize over the years the benefits of implementing a Cloud-based SIEM Service in terms of scalability, cost, and security. However, before operating in the cloud, you should know what architecture you need to adopt to protect your business and your customers’ data. Intending to help you implement a cost-effective SaaS SIEM Service, we share the advantages of multi-tenant over a single-tenant cloud architecture.
There is a new trope in the security industry, and it goes something like this: To keep yourself safe, you need an AI-powered solution that can act on its own, and to do that, you need to keep those pesky humans away from it. As a practitioner with a track record of bringing AI to cybersecurity — not because marchitecture demands it these days but because of its actual utility to solve security problems — I find this characterization puzzling.
