The General Data Protection Regulation came into effect on May 25, 2018 and while there was tremendous noise around this event and it seemed as if...
Oct 26, 2018 l Data Privacy, Data Protection, Regulations, GDPR
Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls for Federal Privacy Law in the US
On Wednesday this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook delivered a keynote address at the European Union's International Conference of Data Protection and...
Oct 10, 2018 l Cybercrime, PCI DSS, GDPR, Regulations, Compliance, Data-Centric Security, Data Protection
Cybercrime Doesn't Follow Regulations - Part III: What's Next?
In the past two blog posts we looked at regulations, the history of hacking, and cybercrime today.
Sep 18, 2018 l Compliance, Data Protection, PCI DSS, GDPR, Data Security
Cybercrime doesn't Follow Regulations - Part II: the Evolution of Hacking
There is a basic question we want to answer in this series: Is it really true that “compliance isn’t security”?
We started with lessons from the...
Sep 7, 2018 l Compliance, Data Protection, PCI DSS, GDPR, Data Security
Cybercrime doesn't Follow Regulations - Part I: Lessons from the Past
"Compliance isn't security - even if you're compliant, you aren't necessarily secure".
I recently heard this quote at an event for the payments...
Jul 25, 2018 l News, Data Security, Tokenization, Data Protection, PCI DSS, GDPR
Mercury Processing Services International Chooses comforte AG for Enterprise Data Security
As a leading regional service provider in payments industry, Mercury Processing Services International (MPSI) appreciates the importance of a...
Jun 15, 2018 l GDPR, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Security, Compliance
4 Reasons why GDPR is an Opportunity and not a Threat
The threats associated with the GDPR are obvious, but could the GDPR be regarded as an opportunity?
Imagine a storage space in your home, be it a...
Jun 14, 2018 l Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Security, PCI DSS, Tokenization, GDPR, Pseudonymisation
7 ways PCI DSS and GDPR overlap
How to kill two regulatory burdens with one stone
Becoming GDPR compliant can seem like a daunting task. So daunting in fact that some firms...
May 14, 2018 l GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, Data Security, Tokenization, Data Protection, Pseudonymisation
Don't be a dodo, secure your data!
If I was writing this in the early 2000s, I would have started with the line “open any newspaper and the headline will be screaming about…” but...