The PCI standard, long touted as one of the private sector's strongest attempts to regulate itself on IT security, is increasingly being slammed by critics who claim that the rules aren't doing enough to protect credit and debit card data.
Sun announced today that it is throwing its hat into the standards arena, proposing that its open-source key management API be used as a universal way to allow encrypting devices to communicate with key management systems.
The world's six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid state drives (SSD) and encryption key management applications.
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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ISO, IEC reject appeals, approve OOXML spec
Nations question ISO's merit following dropped OOXML appeals
IBM threatens to leave standards bodies
European public sector open-source guidelines spark debate
IEEE to set up patent pools to simplify standards adoption
OVF: A Standard for Virtualization's Future
Coming soon: Full-disk encryption for all computer drives
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MySpace enhances data portability system
PCI security rules may require reinforcements