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Facebook Privacy – End User Awareness and Accountability Lacking – By Katie Weaver, Awareity

A group of 15 US privacy and consumer protection groups filed a complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accusing Facebook of “unfair and deceptive” practices and called on the FTC to investigate Facebook’s privacy practices and force it to take steps to guard better against security breaches.

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Organizations are Not Managing People and Awareness Ongoing…Do you Know Who is? – By Katie Weaver, Awareity

Cyber Criminals, Terrorists, Competition, Social Networks, etc.
A few weeks ago, security vendor McAfee caused widespread concern when it revealed that a problem with its antivirus product caused some Windows XP systems to crash.
Who was the first to react to this incident?

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Mounting Challenges with People and Processes…Do you need a Tractor? – By Rick Shaw, President/CEO, Awareity

I attended the national ACUTA conference a few weeks ago and one of the speakers mentioned Philip Quigley’s quote regarding ‘farmers and building tractors’. If you are not familiar with his quote, see below:
Philip J. Quigley, former CEO of Pacific Telesis said, "If we were to go back in time 100 years and ask a farmer what he’d like if he could have anything, he’d probably tell us he wanted a horse that was twice as strong and ate half as many oats. He would not tell us he wanted a tractor. Technology changes things so fast that many people aren’t sure what the best solutions to their problems might be."

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SecureGRC: Unification of Security Monitoring and IT-GRC – The Next Generation of IT Compliance and Business Risk Management

Abstract
Concerns towards effective information governance and risk management strengthen from the increasing trend in cyber-security and data breaches, the average cost per breach being US$202. As per a recent survey in 2009, Corporations lost $1 trillion worldwide as a result of data loss, both malicious and accidental. The impact of the breach leaves no segment untouched – retail, technology firms, medical industry and even the defense!

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Element partners with anthology to provide pci dss compliant payment processing – Credit Card Processing Solution Offers Booksellers Greater Security and Simplified PCI DSS Compliance

PHOENIX, AZ May 14, 2010 – Element Payment Services, Inc., a recognized industry leader in PCI DSS compliant payment processing and Anthology Development LLC., the premier bookstore management system provider announce a partnership which will provide fully integrated, PCI DSS compliant processing solutions to Anthology customers.

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eGestalt Webinar - Enterprise IT Security and Compliance Management Are Creating An Exciting Business Opportunity For Channel Partners

Webinar Details:
Date: June 10, 2010.
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT & 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

Attend this webinar to learn how to become a partner of eGestalt and become a part of this emerging global business opportunity and make money offering a Managed Compliance Service through eGestalt.
IT-Governance Risk and Compliance Management (IT-GRC) and Cyber threats are opening up unexpectedly new revenue streams of business opportunities. Only 5% of companies world-wide are using a security monitoring mechanism, 40% of companies are outsourcing their security monitoring. 55% of companies are just not bothered about security monitoring at all.

June 10, 2010; 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

June 10, 2010; 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

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