Accelerating the Journey to PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance with ACI Worldwide
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comforte and ACI Worldwide Partner to Help with Enabling PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance by March 2025

Thomas Gloerfeld

In a significant move towards enhancing payment data security and achieving compliance with the latest PCI DSS standards, ACI Worldwide has announced a strategic partnership with comforte AG, a global leader in data protection and compliance solutions. This collaboration aims to empower ACI’s customers to seamlessly transition to PCI DSS 4.0 standards by March 2025, ensuring robust security measures for payment transactions.

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You are Responsible for Data Security in the Cloud

Thomas Gloerfeld

Cloud computing is the fuel powering modern digital transformation. Across the globe, organizations invested heavily during the pandemic to adapt to new market conditions, drive more efficient business processes and support mass home working. It’s estimated that 60% of corporate data globally is now stored in the cloud, and much of this will be in public cloud data centres.

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Data is the Lifeblood of your Organization

Thomas Gloerfeld

Data is pretty crucial to any business these days. Many people claim that data is the most important asset you can possess, with more utility than capital assets and more meaningful (though often latent) insights than a host of human capital. Data reflects your entire business: your intellectual property, your industry, the broader market trends, the pain points and needs of prospective customers, and your existing customer base.

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HPE NonStop NSGit: Integrated Enterprise Software Management

Randall Becker

As we integrate technology in the enterprise, we see tendrils of GUARDIAN code extending outward to OSS, Windows, Linux, Mac, and towards edge computing. Components like JSON definitions and libraries are starting to be use everywhere – you only want to write your message parser once so that everyone gets the same view. We also see components from other platforms starting to inject themselves into GUARDIAN as we modernize and publish services from our mission critical legacy applications to services elsewhere.

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GDPR 2021 – Compliance and Penalties; 3 Years Later

Steve Tcherchian

The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is a major piece of legislation adopted in 2018. It is designed to address the protection and responsible use of every European Union citizen’s personal data. However, GDPR is not an EU-only regulation. It affects ANY business or individual handling the data of EU citizens, regardless of where that business or individual is based.

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Psst! Compliance Isn’t the Goal!

Marty Edelman

Corporations spend billions of dollars annually on compliance audits and remediations, dollars that one can argue are misused. Whenever a new data privacy standard is released, entire teams are spun up to bring systems into compliance.

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One of Thailand’s Largest Bank Implements PCI Compliant Data Protection on Countrywide Banking Network

Thomas Gloerfeld

This Bank has the largest network of ATMs and branches in Thailand, with nearly 6,000 ATMs and over 1,000 branches throughout the country. They handle the travel, capital accumulation, and home deposit savings of millions of citizens. The Bank’s total assets amount to 2.62 trillion baht (THB), equivalent to approximately 80 billion USD, and in 2014 it had an operating income of 26.9 billion baht or approximately 826 million USD.

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Security Spotlight

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Holistic security means more than just implementing one tool, one method, one solution, or one process to protect your business’s data. It means exploring every avenue to implement a multi-pronged defensive strategy and never depending on just a single security tool or solution. Organizations that follow more holistic approaches to security are the ones best positioned to remain in compliance with internal and regulatory mandates and to prevent breaches or unauthorized access to sensitive data. They’re the ones who can best protect their intellectual property, their brand reputation, and their customers’ most sensitive data.