WiFi – PCI compliance: Why is it Important?

    New devices and old alike:   The issue with WiFi is that it is a network piece that can bite you if you are not aware of it.   In PCI compliance the relevant section (besides the sections for configuring your device correctly at 4.1) The testing of Wireless networks is in 11.1: … Read more

Is The Firewall Useless? or Less Useful?

Even a Next Generation Firewall(NGFW) will not save your network if the fundamental architecture is designed to prevent the firewall from working properly. Asaf Cidon Posted the following at informationweekDARKReading: http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/why-the-firewall-is-increasingly-irrelevant/a/d-id/1320800     Obviously a firewall protects machines and users that are behind the firewall. So as Asaf rightly points out when the user data is … Read more

HIPAA Enforcement: 10% of any covered entity Will be audited says Office for Civil rights

At Showmecon  (www.showmecon.com – June8,9 2015) I went to a HIPAA compliance talk by Hudson Harris “HIPAA 2015- Wrath of the Audits”   It was an excellent talk by Hudson Harris  @legallevity  (his Twitter account) And this is what my report (or what I got out of it) is:   1.  10% of all HIPAA covered … Read more

Review Your Logs as Determined by your Annual Risk Assessment

That is what PCI(Payment Card Industry) DSS(Data Security Standard)  v3.1 April 2015 says at 10.6.2 and 10.6.1     This makes sense right? review your logs for security events, and of all critical components and systems. The list of critical systems: Firewall Any email server (proofpoint, antispam etc) Fileserver IPS/IDS system Intrusion Prevention-Detection System Routers … Read more