Protect Cardholder Data— and Your Business—with a Strategic Approach to PCI Compliance

Acquiring or issuing banks, merchants, service providers, payment processors, ISOs, integrators, and payment application vendors are required to meet
the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, which is comprised of the major
payment card brands, developed PCI DSS as a set of comprehensive requirements to enhance credit-card data security worldwide. PCI DSS is required of all
organizations that accept, store, or process credit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Japan Credit Bank, and Discover Financial.

Protect Cardholder Data— and Your Business—with a Strategic Approach to PCI Compliance

Acquiring or issuing banks, merchants, service providers, payment processors, ISOs, integrators, and payment application vendors are required to meet
the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, which is comprised of the major
payment card brands, developed PCI DSS as a set of comprehensive requirements to enhance credit-card data security worldwide. PCI DSS is required of all
organizations that accept, store, or process credit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Japan Credit Bank, and Discover Financial.

Information Security: Managing Multiple Security Compliance Requirements

Recent years have seen an explosion in the number of security compliance mandates. At any one time, you could be required to meet various industry standards or comply with state and federal regulations, cutting across business processes, assets, and geographic and jurisdictional boundaries.

Information Security: Managing Multiple Security Compliance Requirements

Recent years have seen an explosion in the number of security compliance mandates. At any one time, you could be required to meet various industry standards or comply with state and federal regulations, cutting across business processes, assets, and geographic and jurisdictional boundaries.
The standards-ISO 27002, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DDS), and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) to name but a few-have been driven by a variety of needs such as governing jurisdictions, industry requirements, partner obligations, or the need to enforce controls that instill customer confidence.

Protect Your Network and the Little Free Time You Have Left

Hackers. Rootkits. Phishing. Botnets. Disgruntled former employees. The list of threats to your network is long-just like your workday. That's why we want to make short work of keeping tabs on your network's security.
Our Vulnerability Management Service gives you on-demand access to our web-based Verizon Business Vulnerability Management Console. This dashboard, managed by our security engineers, gives you a way to easily get an assessment of potential vulnerabilities on your internal and external networks.

Verizon Enterprise Risk and Incident Sharing Metrics Framework

As you may know, Verizon Business publishes the Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), which presents aggregated case statistics collected by our Investigative Response (IR) team. What you may not know is that the reports are based upon a set of metrics developed internally for the purpose of capturing key details surrounding a breach. A version of these metrics are now publicly available as the Verizon Enterprise Risk and Incident Sharing (VERIS) framework. This document provides a brief overview of VERIS and how your organization can make use of it to better organize, track, and responsibly share incident data.

Is Your Log Management System Effective and Relevant?

You probably have the technical capabilities for log management through an in-house solution, an outsourced solution, or some combination. However, evidence suggests that your current log management may be less than effective. Take, for example, findings from the 2009 Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report.

Securing Your Infrastructure

Achieving security within the extended enterprise requires more of your organization: more resources (time, investment, and personnel) and more effort (self-awareness, planning, and validation). It is no longer sufficient to just invest in all the technology and systems your business needs to stay secure. You have to effectively leverage your technology investments to make sure they are aligned with your business challenges. This requires processes and procedures based on best practices to be implemented in the context of your organization. It also needs security experts who understand the environment in which your business operates and have a mastery of the applicable security technologies. Finally, it requires intelligence to keep your security controls synchronized with the ever-changing threat landscape.

Securing the Extended Enterprise

For decades, technologists in the security industry believed that the best strategy to protect an organization was to build a strong wall around it. This so-called "perimeter model" assumed that the virtual boundaries of an organization were very similar to the physical boundaries. In the early days of the Internet, this assumption was essentially accurate. Connectivity between an organization and the outside world was limited and easily identified. "Keeping the bad guys out" was the motto, prompting the development of a broad range of network-focused security products.

Security and IT Services for Mergers and Acquisitions

On paper, mergers or acquisitions can sound so simple. Company A buys Company B, they combine infrastructure and networks, consolidate a few facilities, and the merged company becomes more profitable and stronger than before. But, there is a lot to consider when undertaking mergers and acquisitions (M&A) - especially when it comes to developing a successful integration strategy.

Whether driven by the desire to access new technology or capitalize on an opportunity to grow, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are always challenging, and not always successful. Involvement of a trusted advisor to develop and implement an effective security and IT integration plan is essential to success in an ever-changing global environment.