| IBM upgrades identity management, focusing on user access and compliance, 12/12/07 IBM upgraded its identity management capabilities with tools to help customers manage user access to sensitive information, the company said Wednesday. NSS Labs touts PCI certification program, 12/10/07 Security product-testing firm NSS Labs has started a certification program based on requirements associated with the Payment Card Industry security standard. Can mid-market merchants comply with PCI standards?, 12/06/07 Nearly a year after TJX Companies suffered what is believed to be the largest identity theft to have hit a retailer, credit card companies are laying down the law for any merchant who transacts business with plastic. By New Year's Eve, all businesses that handle between 1 million and 6 million credit card transactions a year (primarily mid-market companies) must comply with the Payment Card Industry's new Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Ofcom rules that VoIP must do emergency calls, 12/07/07 The U.K. telecom regulator has, as expected, ruled that customers must be able to call the emergency services using VoIP. Why should merchants keep credit card data?, 12/06/07 Who would question the assumption that retailers should protect their customers' credit card data? The retailers. As businesses that take credit cards have embarked on the costly trek toward the Payment Card Industry's (PCI) compliance, some members of the National Retail Federation, an industry trade association, are wondering why this security effort has fallen into their laps. Microsoft uses new XBRL data tags in SEC filing, 12/07/07 Microsoft has submitted data to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) using a newly released taxonomy for a financial reporting language designed to make it easier to compare companies' financial figures. Security policies? Workers ignore them, survey says, 12/06/07 It's one thing to have a company-wide information security policy in place. But it's a whole different ball game to get employees to actually follow the policies -- even those that are IT types. | 
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