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How to Prevent Ransomware

by Hannah Grace Holladay / June 14, 2023

Ransomware is perhaps the most disruptive and infuriating security threat facing businesses in 2022. A ransomware infection is a symptom of an information and infrastructure security failure that may hurt a business’s reputation and pose a compliance risk. Ransomware not only deprives a business of data essential to its operations; it also forces business leaders to decide whether to pay off criminals—an action that has ethical, financial, and legal implications.…

6 Steps to Prevent Data Breaches

by Hannah Grace Holladay / June 14, 2023

As we enter a new year, it’s traditional to look back at the successes and failures of the last twelve months. The information security world is no different, and as the year draws to a close, information security writers publish a flurry of articles with titles like The Top Data Breaches of 2021 and The Top 5 Scariest Data Breaches in 2021. They are sobering reading: each listicle entry represents…

How to Achieve PCI DSS Compliance on AWS

by Hannah Grace Holladay / February 15, 2023

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an information security standard merchants and service providers must comply with if they store, process, or transmit cardholder data. PCI DSS includes over 400 information security requirements, including requirements that apply to cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Organizations that use AWS to store and process credit card data must ensure their cloud infrastructure is compliant. But maintaining…