It’s 2 AM: Do You Know Where Your Data Is?
Written by Evan SchumanAugust 7th, 2008
One of the fundamental challenges of PCI compliance is that the rules assume the CIO knows where all of the company's data is. In today's typical retail enterprise, though, this can be a remarkably flawed assumption.
This is not to say that most executives don't know where their data starts and where it's sent. But as data routes its way through off-site backup, into employees' laptops and USB flash drives, is shared with key customers and partners over an extranet and even spoken in a call center, that data can end up in quite a few unexpected places.
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Is there really an improvement between a mag swipe and contactless tap if multi-factor authentication is required?
-Ed
