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Information Security Management

  • PCI QSA

    Payment Card Industry Qualified Security Assessor (PCI QSA) is a designation conferred by the PCI Security Standards Council to individuals it deems qualified to perform PCI assessments and consulting services

  • Talking with lawyers: How to manage information security legal issues

    Dealing with lawyers is often a challenge. Ernie Hayden offers advice for CISOs dealing with enterprise information security legal issues.

  • Balancing compliance with information security threat assessment

    Compliance is often the driver for security spending rather than real risks. Learn how to incorporate current threats into a compliance program.

  • Compliance and Cloud Security

    This comprehensive guide to compliance and cloud security covers all the angles in order to help clarify security and compliance issues associated with cloud computing.

  • The effects of PCI DSS, compliance requirements on the security industry

    Paul Judge of Barracuda Networks and Joshua Corman of the 451 Group discuss whether compliance hinders the creation of innovative security technologies.

  • PCI survey finds more compliance spending planned to meet guidelines

    A survey of 500 security professionals found that although the compliance initiatives are burdensome, they are improving security at most organizations.

  • user account provisioning

    User account provisioning is a business process for creating and managing access to resources in an information technology (IT) system. To be effective, an account provisioning process should ensure that the creation of accounts and provisioning of access to software and data is is consistent and simple to administer.

  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

    SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet; it uses a program layer located between the Internet's HTTP and TCP program layers.