Lots of Internet-connected devices are available on the market and a popular theme now is devices to create a ‘smart home’, which includes smart door locks, surveillance/security cameras and heating control systems that can be monitored and controlled when you are away from the home. This ability to remotely connect to and integrate devices […]
By Natasja Bolton, Senior Acquirer Support QSA Steps to protect small businesses from this year’s security threats This week we explore some of the security threats and cyber-attacks expected to feature in 2017. As these risks could impact your small business customers we highlight actions that businesses can take to protect themselves, so […]
The PCI DSS v3.2 Self-Assessment Questionnaires requires that all merchants have an Incident Response Plan, regardless of their size, volume of transactions or the extent to which they have outsourced the handling of payment card data. This is to make sure they can respond effectively in the event of a breach that could impact payment […]
By Jason McWhirr, Information Security Consultant Globally, criminals are increasingly abandoning the more traditional approaches to crime. They are looking to the internet for their targets and using it as their preferred route to perpetrate criminal activity. The UK National Crime Agency’s Cyber Crime Assessment 2016 reports that cybercrime has now over taken traditional crime […]
By Natasja Bolton, Senior Acquirer Support QSA In order to help your merchant businesses with the definition and documentation of their Incident Response Plan, Sysnet has created a template document – Download the Security Incident Response Plan Template. All merchants self-assessing their Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance now need […]
by Dr. Grigorios Fragkos, VP Cybersecurity The Cyber Liability Insurance Cover (CLIC) or otherwise referred to as cyber insurance, is a market that grew significantly in 2015. One of the main factors that significantly contributed to this growth is the constant increase of threats in the cyber space and more specifically the high profile data breaches that […]
Global data breach and security threat reports continue to highlight that all organisations both large and small may be subject to cyber attacks. As Forbes pointed out in a recent article, in 2014 “60 percent of all targeted attacks struck small- and medium-sized organizations”. In previous blog entries, we discussed that these smaller organisations […]
Research shows that the cost of non-compliance with the PCI DSS can be two and a half times more expensive than protecting your customer’s data. Small merchants are often not safer than larger ones, in fact they are more likely to be targeted by data thieves due to not investing in the necessary resources. […]
