CalOptima says data on 68,000 members may be compromised
Personal data on about 68,000 members of CalOptima, a Medicaid managed care plan serving Orange County, Calif., may have been compromised earlier this month.
Judge says TD Ameritrade's proposed security fixes not enough
A federal judge's rejection of a proposed settlement by TD Ameritrade Inc. in a data breach lawsuit marks the second time in recent months where a court has weighed in on what it consider to be basic security standards for protecting data.
Brocade partners with Thales for network-based encryption appliance
Brocade and Thales have combined switching and encryption technologies to create a SAN-based appliance that encrypts data on the fly at high speed and performs centralized key management.
Embracing Tokenization: Payment Without Pain
According to the recent Gartner Group report, Using Tokenization to Reduce PCI compliance Requirements, "enterprises that have successfully implemented tokenization ... have reduced the scope of ... costly PCI compliance audits while keeping sensitive cardholder data more contained and secure."
PayChoice breached for the second time this month
For the second time this month, PayChoice Inc., a large online provider of payroll processing services, has had to shut down its online portal because of a security breach.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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