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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

The CCA allows overarching enterprise functions and IT shared services to be assessed separately from the business unit’s products/applications that require PCI security compliance. Some of them not only can provide strong authentication, but also have the ability to be used as a secret repository.

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Advisory: Malicious North Korean Cyber Activity

SecureWorld News

CISA refers to any malicious cyber activity from the North Korean government as Hidden Cobra. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Restrict users' ability (permissions) to install and run unwanted software applications. Keep operating system patches up-to-date.

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Overcoming the Equation: Security = Friction

CTOvision

We’ve migrated to a userid-password society; as we’ve added layers of security, we password-protect each layer: PC (and now device), network, enclave, application, database, and storage (encryption). It’s much easier to use biometrics or a SmartCard to identify yourself to a system or application. Userids and passwords are almost free.

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Balancing Resource Sharing in Multi-tenant Architectures with Single-tenant Services

KineticData

Understanding the Landscape In multi-tenant architectures, resources such as computing power, databases, and network resources are shared among various users or clients, referred to here as tenants. This article delves into these challenges, focusing on strategies to ensure security, scalability, and performance in shared environments.

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PCI Compliance and Network Segmentation

Galido

Information falling under personally identifiable information include the primary account number (PAN), cardholder name, service code, expiration date, and other sensitive card authentication data. Hardware and software components that make up the CDE include network devices, applications, and computing devices. Out-of-Scope Systems.

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Averting turbulence in the air

CIO Business Intelligence

Following this trend, some airlines even developed their own “payment application” through which customers not only can book airline tickets but also make payments on other e-commerce platforms. is asking all organizations to encrypt the data on the application level—in other words, disk or partition-level encryption is not enough anymore.

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Technology Short Take 117

Scott Lowe

Here’s my latest gathering of links and articles from the around the World Wide Web (an “old school” reference for you right there). Operating Systems/Applications. David Holder talks briefly about application security with mutual TLS (mTLS) via Istio. Welcome to Technology Short Take #117!

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