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When A Credit Card Payment Processor Gets Hacked

April 3rd, 2012 | Posted by Valerie Jacobi in Incident Response | PCI - (0 Comments)

Not to make light of the gravity of the event, but here we go again – Consumers are subjected to another round of warnings about yet another credit card information breach! Unfortunately, these data breach warnings are in danger of becoming as common as the daily weather report. This time the source of the breach, which affects Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards, has been laid at the feet of Atlanta-based payment processor Global Payments. Global Payments self-reported that unauthorized access into its processing system had indeed taken place earlier this year.

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Valerie Jacobi

Valerie Jacobi

Valerie Jacobi is a Guest Contributor for True Digital Security and has extensive experience in security policy and procedure development, controls design and testing, auditing, and consulting. Valerie holds CISSP and CISA certifications.

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On Tokenization: Tokenization & Payment Channels

January 4th, 2012 | Posted by Alex Pezold in PCI | Tokenization - (0 Comments)

Implementing tokenization is much more about understanding how your organization interacts with payments than it is simply rolling out a device that will tokenize payment card data. Many tokenization solutions in the market today are a “silver bullet” and can remove your environment from PCI scope. Beware though, most solutions address only one piece of the tokenization puzzle.Read more

Alex Pezold

Alex Pezold

Alex is the Director of Business Development at True. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) certifications for Designated Approving Authority and Information Security System Professional. Alex has a Masters of Science in Computer Science, with an Information Security emphasis, and has participated in the Federal Service Cyber Corps Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Department of Defense.

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On Tokenization: Implementing Tokenization

December 27th, 2011 | Posted by Alex Pezold in PCI | Tokenization - (0 Comments)

Don’t be fooled. Implementing tokenization may not be as easy as they say. In fact, depending on your environment, implementing tokenization can be quite complex. For instance, if your company is a wholesaler and takes payments through multiple channels, implementing tokenization in all of those channels can be quite challenging.Read more

Alex Pezold

Alex Pezold

Alex is the Director of Business Development at True. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) certifications for Designated Approving Authority and Information Security System Professional. Alex has a Masters of Science in Computer Science, with an Information Security emphasis, and has participated in the Federal Service Cyber Corps Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Department of Defense.

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On Tokenization: Determining if Tokenization Is the Right Solution

December 21st, 2011 | Posted by Alex Pezold in PCI | Tokenization - (0 Comments)

How do you know if Tokenization is the right data security solution for your environment? Depending on how sensitive data flows throughout your environment, integrating a tokenization solution may not be the right solution. For instance, tokenizing a very small environment does not make sense if point-to-point encryption can provide the necessary means for data protection. Conversely, tokenization can drastically reduce, if not eliminate, a majority of your environment from PCI Scope.Read more

Alex Pezold

Alex Pezold

Alex is the Director of Business Development at True. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) certifications for Designated Approving Authority and Information Security System Professional. Alex has a Masters of Science in Computer Science, with an Information Security emphasis, and has participated in the Federal Service Cyber Corps Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Department of Defense.

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“What Keeps Me Up at Night” – EMR on the Internet

November 17th, 2011 | Posted by Brett Edgar in Compliance | HIPAA | PCI - (0 Comments)

Right now two things keep me from getting a good night’s sleep:

The first – the anticipation of whether we’ll experience another earthquake in Oklahoma.
The second – the explosion of transmittal of electronic medical records (EMR) across the Internet.
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Brett Edgar

Brett Edgar

Brett is a Founder and the former Director of Managed Security Services at TRUE. He has been working in the system and network forensics field since graduating from the University of Tulsa with a B.S. Computer Science in 2003. He speaks hexadecimal fluently and is TRUE's resident human Ethernet transceiver. He holds CISSP, CSSLP, and CNSS 4011-4015 certificates, loves MLB and NCAA Football, and when he gets tired of hexadecimal, he goes home to hang out with his wife and kid.

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