How to Protect Your Data from Third-Party Breaches

 How to Protect Your Data from Third-Party Breaches The December 2013 Target data breach that compromised the credit card information of 40 million customers was the first of many wake-up calls to organizations, bringing home the damage a company can sustain when a partner’s systems are hacked. As the whole world now knows, the HVAC supplier had access to more of Target’s systems than was needed or intended, and hackers...

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Identity and Access Management

With organizations increasingly focusing on access governance (as they should!), it would be foolish to underestimate the importance of Identity Management. Data on the what, why and when of information access must be complemented by the knowledge of who accesses data—in other words, the identity of the person accessing data. Identity management refers to the process of creating and implementing policies that define roles for every member of...

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