Retailers have had a tough couple of years, as have their suppliers, the packaged goods manufacturers. Identifying buyer behavior patterns and underperforming products quickly is a surefire way to capitalize on opportunities and turn store performance around. Being able to slice and dice POS data to measure and track customer buying behavior and sa...

Companies cite encryption, security-event logging, and data in transit issues as the most challenging compliance elements....

Companies still face significant hurdles when it comes to protecting customer data with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), according to a recent survey conducted by Computerworld and sponsored by nuBridges, the secure eBusiness authority....

Less than 50% of businesses with 20,000 or more payment transactions annually are compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, suggest recent survey data from Computerworld Inc., a Framingham, Mass.-based provider of technology information. *Subscription is required in order to download the full article...

nuBridges has partnered with PGP to integrate its encryption technology into nuBridges Exchange managed file transfer and B2B gateway software solution. The integration will enable nuBridges' customers to safely and easily share documents and files internally with business partners, while monitoring the flow of data and meeting governance and c...

As recent data breaches reveal, PCI compliance is not the silver bullet when it comes to protecting sensitive data from today's savvy cybercriminal. These cybercriminals are opportunists. They steal valuable consumer data from wherever it is easiest to reach. And for retailers, that can be at the point-of-sale, database or any application that ...

How nuBridges CEO Paul Olson changed pro football...

While point of sale analytics capabilities can be developed using business intelligence packages, a new breed of Web-based solutions can transmit confidential product SKU information securely using electronic data interchange (EDI), and combine data points from multiple retailers into customized Web-portal dashboards....

NuBridges a provider of software and services designed to protect sensitive data at rest and in transit, is reportedly inviting British Telecommunications plc customers to join its Electronic Data Interchange Value Added Network gateway, nuBridges Exchange Network. ...

We’re on the threshold of witnessing a convergence of data security initiatives that may be the only real choice some enterprises will have to ensure consumer privacy and organizational confidentiality....

The clock is ticking on the July 1, 2010 deadline for complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards. Introduced in 2004, the standards were developed by the major credit-card companies as a guideline to help organizations that process card payments prevent credit-card fraud, hacking, and other security threats....

I think I might be spending too much on information security. I'll bet that's something you don't hear every day. It's an ice-breaker that I've been thinking of using at an upcoming meeting with senior management regarding information security risk. ...

nuBridges, an e-business security provider, has released nuBridges Exchange 3.0, a secure, enterprise managed file-transfer (MFT) software. The tool is designed to help organizations reduce file-transfer costs and complexity, secure and audit file-transfer events, meet compliance requirements and share files among departments, divisions and high-vo...

nuBridges last week delivered a major update to its managed file transfer (MFT) offering with the launch of Exchange 3.0. The new software features a new Web 2.0-style interface and a unified code base for all target platforms, which should simplify the installation and overall use of the product. Exchange 3.0 also gives nuBridges' System i cus...

nuBridges Exchange digitally transfers information within and across enterprises, reducing MFT costs and complexity, securing and auditing file transfer events, meeting regulations and easily sharing files within high-volume B2B communities...

nuBridges releases Exchange 3.0, its next-generation secure managed file transfer (MFT) software. nuBridges Exchange helps organizations reduce file transfer costs, secure and audit file transfer events, meet compliance requirements and share files among departments, divisions and high-volume B2B communities. ...

Organizations looking to buy and implement a managed file transfer (MFT) product to drive better security and governance of file transfer activities may want to consult the recent Gartner report on the product category. In its September Magic Quadrant, the analyst group sliced and diced nearly four dozen vendors and their MFT offerings....

...Unlike other available offerings, nuBridges Exchange is a highly scalable solution that runs on distributed systems platforms and works across disparate IT environments, offering a wide range of support for multiple file types, standards and protocols including sFTP, FTPs, AS2 and more....

The next version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), due out some time in 2010, may include guidelines for the use of virtualization technology to protect card data. ...

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Page 84:  Whether driven by data security mandates and consumer privacy laws or trading partner requirements, IT directors across industries are investigating ways to protect confidential information from theft and misuse, wherever it resides and travels. As a result of the exponential growth in electronic information sharing, it's no surp...

Retailers have always been vigilant about securing customer data. Still, when the PCI compliance mandates were published a few years back, they recognized the need to ratchet up their commitment and refocus their energies on protecting critical data at every turn....

Servant leadership works well for all organizations. But in our industry, where a high degree of collaboration, trust, integrity and innovation are essential, it is difficult to argue that such an organization would not thrive under servant leadership.  LEARN MORE...

One of the great things about the Internet is it makes it exceptionally easy to distribute computer files. Within minutes, users can be up and running with free FTP and e-mail utilities, and begin sending files around the globe. However, as is the case with many things about the Internet, decentralized file transfer opens the door to security probl...

nuBridges, eSENSE Retail to give CPG manufacturers a secure means to transmit confidential product information to Web portal with customized dashboards for buying behavior analysis...

The number of users victimized by malware specifically intended to rob personally identifiable information (PII) leapt 600 percent this year compared to the same period in 2008, according to a report released on Thursday by PandaLabs, a division of Bilbao, Spain-based Panda Security....

Cybercriminals are opportunists. They steal information from wherever it's easiest to reach. They have approached data theft in a methodical way, starting at the bottom of the technology stack and working their way up to the top – the applications layer. ...

Online Insights: Data Security.  Article by nuBridges Vice President of Product Management, Gary Palgon.   ||  Tokenization reduces the scope both of risk and data storage requirements, while maintaining referential integrity and streamlining the auditing process for regulatory compliance. ...

Most people choose a hair stylist by how they look and feel when they leave the salon. Regis Corporation and its many branded owned or franchised hair-care specialists give their customers an added reason to feel comfortable. Regis takes the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and encrypts customer credit-card information from po...

Drummond Group Inc., the trusted interoperability test lab, announced that nuBridges Inc. has completed the AS1-2Q09 Interoperability certification. This test was the first fully automated AS1 testing using Drummond Group's patented InSitu® automation technology. This technology allows the tester to automate the execution and evaluation of ...

GlobalSCAPE Inc. formed a strategic partnership with nuBridges that officials say will extend the breadth of capabilities for two companies to offer business-to-businesss information security products and services to enterprise customers....

nuBridges has recently entered into partnerships with two i OS security vendors, Raz-Lee Security and Safestone Technologies, to provide those vendors' i OS customers with encryption and tokenization solutions that, among other things, will help to satisfy PCI DSS requirements....

Tokenization is a security technology that can be used with many kinds of sensitive data, not just payment card information. You may want to protect Social Security numbers, customer account information, or corporate financial records. Turning these data types into tokens takes away the incentive for thieves to steal the information because they ca...

Data loss is a huge problem for organizations of all sizes and in all industries. In 2008, the Verizon Business RISK Team investigated 90 breaches in which more than 285 million records were compromised. Most of those records involved sensitive payment card data. The thieves who pilfered the records then turned around and sold or used the informati...

Sheffield-based i security specialist Safestone Technologies has struck a deal with U.S. encryption firm nuBridges to augment its PCI Security Standard-compliance tools. nuBridges' Protect encryption solution will be sold as an optional addition to Safestone's DetectIT security offering....

Partnering with other businesses means sharing secrets, and that private data must be transferred securely. Companies can up their efficiency and rest easier knowing that their sensitive data is secure by following three best practices in B2B communications: Keep your partners' info up to date, use trustworthy connection protocols, and determin...

As the newest wave of Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard mandates loom on the horizon, retailers are preparing data-security and payment-processing systems for compliance, and direct-to-consumer companies are no exception. Fingerhut is taking a pioneering step in the right direction with the debut of a tokenization project to furt...

System iNEWS Staff selects Hot New Products for 2009.  Under the category of SECURITY, nuBridges Protect with Integrated Tokenization....

Founded in 1922 as a small family-owned chain of beauty salons in department stores, today Regis is nearly 8 times larger than its nearest competitor, generates annual revenues in excess of $2.4 billion and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. All of this success was not by accident. Regis has a great business model that, among other ...

Direct-marketing retailer Fingerhut is undertaking a new strategy to protect sensitive payment-card information: Hiding it in plain sight through a data-scrambling method called “tokenization.” ...

EDI transaction networks have evolved to a supply chain information grid.  Major retailers and distributors are opening up visibility into their supply chain and looking for collaboration on demand metrics and KPIs with their supplier base.  If I was a supplier in this rapidly changing landscape, I would be one of the first to want to col...

E-commerce enterprises have to maintain stringent security controls over customer credit card numbers, and any part of the system that deals with them has to lock its doors extra tight. When that information is changed into a proxy number, however -- in other words, tokenized -- it can flow freely through the system, while the actual credit card nu...

A solution that’s relatively new to the market, tokenization, offers potential over the de facto standard, encryption. But even the PCI’s standards committee can’t decide which defense is best to use to keep credit card data safe. ...

Drummond Group, the trusted interoperability test lab, today announced that 22 AS2 software products from U.S and international companies completed the AS2-1Q09 Drummond Certified Interoperability testing. AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) is the IETF specification standard by which applications communicate all forms of data including EDI and XML ove...

B2B integration specialist nuBridges is set to acquire TradeTrans, Inc., a provider of real-time business intelligence tools that give visibility into the supply chain.nuBridges said that the acquisition is part of its plan to build long-term business equity value by achieving substantial growth and market share, and by establishing itself as the b...

E-business security and data transfer company nuBridges has agreed to acquire TradeTrans Inc., which sells real-time business intelligence tools the provide visibility to supply chains. ...

 By Scott Denne ... nuBridges Inc., a provider of software and services for transmitting business information, has acquired TradeTrans Inc., a provider of on-demand business intelligence software for an organization's supply chain. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Both companies are privately held. nuBridges is about one-third own...

Linda Harty and System iNEWS technical editor Mel Beckman interviews Gartner analyst John Pescatore to learn about credit card tokenization. Pescatore, who specializes in Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), encryption related to PCI DSS, and overall security of Internet systems for Gartner, explained that tokenization can r...

Web Video Instrumental in Product Launch CampaignThe agency’s new media team wrote, directed and produced a Web video to support a new product launch for nuBridges Protect Token Manager....

"Tokenization"--a term coined by nuBridges--is a new and promising technology that may allow midsize and larger companies to manage their encryption processes and encryption keys in a more streamlined and effective manner....

Read the article by Gary Palgon, vice president of Product Management, nuBridges published in the May 2009 issue of ISSA Journal. For more information, visit www.issa.org....

It's not just credit card data that is at risk. > Learn what other types of data may need protection. It's not only external threat that companies need to protect against. > Learn who else companies need protection against. Listen to Gary explain best practices for protecting all types of sensitive data. Data security is serious busin...

First they attacked information stored in databases. As soon as companies began securing this data at rest, they went after data in transit in wireless networks. Companies then reacted by taking steps to secure wireless transmissions and those with business partners. Now, the bad guys are going after sensitive information being transmitted internal...

System i security software vendor nuBridges last week unveiled a new product called nuBridges Protect Token Manager that puts a different spin on the problem of encryption in dispersed corporate environments. Instead of encrypting data as it rests in a company's various databases and applications, the product replaces the critical data values w...

nuBridges announces nuBridges Protect Token Manager, a data security software solution that combines universal format-preserving tokenization, strong encryption, and unified key management in one platform-agnostic package. The new product is for enterprises that need to protect volumes of personally identifiable information (PII) as well as payment...

K'NEX Brands just may be the most innovative and fastest growing construction toy company in the world. Founded in 1992, the privately held company makes and sells what has become one of the world's leading integrated construction systems for children, which are designed and manufactured at K'NEX's headquarters and manufacturing fac...

Listen to interview with nuBridges' Gary Palgon at 2009 RSA Conference...

nuBridges, a provider of secure e-business solutions, has released a new version of the Commerce Suite module of its nuBridges Exchange secure file transfer product line, including extended platform support and enhancements to encryption-key management and AS2 protocol communication. ...

Toy manufacturer discovers cost and security benefits of AS2 communication over the Internet for e-business transactions ...

New data security model gains traction with organizations to protect sensitive information, while reducing risk and without altering applications....

Securing sensitive data in a way that does not constrain either business ambitions or agility is, these days, key to business survival. If you have been dismayed by the complexities and security challenges posed by the parti-cipation age, nuBridges’ data and information perspective may be just what is needed to turn your data security chal-le...