This white paper outlines the business and technical case for centralizing administration. Learn more about the steps to take with user authentication and access controls as well as how to provide accountability through direct auditing of user activities. 

This paper explores the efficiency gains of building a strategy designed around PCI compliance and discusses the value of obtaining outside support in your compliance efforts; it also examines potential vendor qualifications. 

A number of factors are driving financial institutions to re-evaluate their payment methods.  These factors include regulations such as Single Euro Payments Area in Europe, which calls for new payment vehicles for customers. Find out how one financial institution was able to meet compliance demands by utilizing a secure payments infrastructure. 

Read this case study to learn how Sourcefire's solutions can help top credit and debit card processors, as well as companies completing far fewer online transactions, in protecting sensitive customer data from cybercriminals. 

Outsourcing credit card processing has emerged as a sensible solution for staying compliant with Payment Card Industry (PCI) demands, as well as a great way to cost-effectively cut down on risk.Read this expert guide to learn how outsourcing can help make life easier with a number of benefits. 

Risk is a function of the likelihood that a potential vulnerability will be exploited, and the resulting impact of that exploitation. In IT systems, risk can be introduced from the internet, servers, networks, malicious insiders, and even lapses in physical security. This whitepaper provides IT risk management best practices. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we hear from Visa Europe CIO Steve Chambers on the technology behind the credit card transactions that retailers rely on. We examine the challenges facing the government's G-Cloud project; and we ask how Microsoft will cope when customers no longer want to purchase software licences. Download the new issue now. 

Compliance is indeed a conscientious effort toward securing corpo­rate assets. IT organizations have committed much time and money to the cause. Despite security breaches still happening many still fly under the radar. This paper outlines what precautions need to be taken to avoid future security breaches. 

While enterprises are often able to achieve compliance during an audit, they often have difficulty maintaining compliance on an ongoing basis. Learn how Red Hat Enterprise Linux's built-in features will allow your business to develop a robust implementation for managing all security necessary to achieve and maintain compliance on an on-going basis. 

Law firms have had to develop new strategies to compete and win in a legal market that contains greater uncertainty than any that has come before it. This paper will briefly outline strategies for success in the evolving legal marketplace. 

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) applies to any organization that processes, transmits or stores payment card transactions or cardholder information. PCI applies not only to retailers but also to any business that accepts a single payment card transaction, no matter the size or industry. 

In this paper we will take a look at this disturbing trend and provide useful guidance for maximizing the value of SIEM and log management tools, while focusing on protecting systems and data not on simply checking the compliance check box.