by Robert K Cole || Since the days of roman highways, the foremost requirement of the hotel industry has been preserving the safety and welfare of its guests. In modern times, this task applies equally to the guests themselves, their belongings and also, their personal information.Hotels spend millions convincing travelers to stay with them, but ar...

The hospitality industry shares many of the same data security vulnerabilities as the retail industry — accepting and storing cardholder information and personal information collected through participation in loyalty and rewards programs — yet lags in the adoption of data security practices, which makes it an attractive target for cyber...

If you’re a PCI maven, you probably already know that today the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) issued their summary changes to the current PCI-DSS and PA-DSS which will become v2.0 of both documents....

Clarifications but no big changes -- and that's what concerns some security experts...

Blog written by Ernie Schell, Director of consultancy Marketing Systems Analysis....

Blog by Sebastian Rohr. "The recently published document on protecting credit card data during processing and storage with tokenization technology has gathered quite a bit of response ..."...

Security - nuBridges Enhances Tokenization for IBM i ApplicationsAt COMMON Orlando, nuBridges announced that it has enhanced its support for IBM i–reliant organizations to further simplify adoption and implementation of tokenization as a data-centric information security strategy. nuBridges Protect, nuBridges' encryption, tokenization, an...

... as the number devices and access mechanisms used for data continues to grow, ensuring the safety of data wherever it is, encryption will become more and more widely used and therefore more and more of a commodity. ...

Visa has released guidelines on tokenization to help merchants and card processors better protect customer credit card data and potentially reduce the burden of complying with PCI rules. ...

Part of broader Visa Europe strategy to help merchants eliminate card data and streamline security...

nuBridges last week unveiled a new version of its cross-platform data tokenization offering that addresses the flexibility demands of enterprise customers. With features such as the capability to run multiple, synchronized data vaults (to boost resiliency and recoverability) and to accept encrypted data at the point of capture (such as point of sal...

nuBridges Inc. has released an updated version of its enterprise tokenization product, seeking to eliminate a key pain point for large companies implementing tokenization: coordinating the issuing of tokens among multiple data centers....

nuBridges Token Manager 2.0 incorporates "format preserving tokenization" to extend tokenization beyond cardholder data to safeguard personally identifiable and protected health information across multiple data centers simultaneously...

...At the heart of the system is the nuBridges Protect product from nuBridges Inc., chosen partly because it was one of the few products that would run natively on Debenhams IBM AS/400 system [now known as iSeries or System i] which handles its payments. It provides a combination of file encryption, tokenisation and key management for the handling ...

Heartland offers end-to-end encryption to customers...

nuBridges announced at COMMON Orlando that it has enhanced its support for IBM i–reliant organizations to further simplify adoption and implementation of tokenization as a data-centric information security strategy....

The fast growth of social-networking sites containing users' personal information is drawing concern from some payment data-security experts who say the risk of exposing consumers' sensitive data is rising. And mobile-payment devices pose similar risks because many developers lack data-security expertise, they say....

nuBridges last week unveiled a new adapter that will make it easier to implement tokenization in the i/OS environment. The nuBridges Protect Adapter for IBM's i/OS, unveiled at last week's COMMON conference, will basically handle all the underlying Web services communications with nuBridges Token Manager, leaving i/OS programmers to work in...

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Debenhams, one of the UK’s largest retailers, has selected nuBridges Protect™ to secure customer credit card numbers and comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), without expanding its IT infrastructure....

nuBridges has enhanced its support for IBM i-reliant organizations to further simplify adoption and implementation of tokenization as a data-centric information security strategy. nuBridges Protect, an encryption, tokenization and key-management solution, now offers a native IBM i adapter to handle Web services-based communication with nuBridges Pr...

nuBridges, a provider of technology solutions, has partnered with Thales, a provider of information systems and communications security services, to help payment industry companies strengthen their credit card protection and reduce scope for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance and audits....

In today's highly competitive business climate, companies must ensure secure, reliable and integrated communications....

nuBridges has completed IBM i 7.1 compatibility testing for its Exchange i secure file-transfer solution and its nuBridges Protect advanced encryption, tokenization and key management software. The company used an early-release version of i 7.1 to test its products to coincide with IBM’s release....

The company that offered the first tokenization-in-a-box solution pushes for industry standards for an emerging technology....

IT auditors can help merchants decrease the complexity and cost of PCI DSS audits while increasing audit success by introducing them to tokenization....

Protecting confidential business information is more complex as cybercriminals find new ways to steal data in transit between trading partners, and even from the application level within the enterprise. Kyle Parris of nuBridges believes the best offensive approach is a comprehensive lifetime data security program comprising advanced managed file tr...

Protecting confidential business information is more complex as cybercriminals find new ways to steal data in transit between trading partners, and even from the application level within the enterprise. Kyle Parris of nuBridges believes the best offensive approach is a comprehensive lifetime data security program comprising advanced managed file tr...

...Tokenization player nuBridges had two announcements – both about interoperability.  First, they announced a tokenization standards group.  End users who wish to “tokenize” data to control distribution of potentially sensitive data (e.g. credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc.) and potentially reduce the sco...

Nick Burke, Information Security Media Group interviews Gary Palgon, VP of Product Management for nuBridges at RSA Conference 2010...Scroll down to 'Security Vendor Interviews" section...

New standards needed for proliferating security strategies...

Security software vendor nuBridges yesterday called for the formation of an industry group to create official standards for tokenization. The company says standards are needed to ensure the security of data, to reduce vendor lock-in, and to ensure the long-term viability of this relatively new form of data security. nuBridges, which is exhibiting a...

nuBridges Leads Efforts for Tokenization Standardization Body at RSA ...

Page 24:  ...For companies that want to further reduce the risk of data theft - from cybercriminals and internal data theft or accidental loss - or reduce the scope of the annual PCI DSS audit, tokenization enhances the security provided by strong encryption without modifications to applications....

...I had a briefing with nuBridges, a vendor of data protection tools that target both data at rest and data in motion. For the data at rest part, tokenization, scrambling and obfuscation of data – especially sensitive information such as credit card information – can be altered and stored in such ways that unique identification is stil...

As enterprises seek to protect data from cybercriminals, internal theft or even accidental loss, encryption and key management have become increasingly important and proven weapons in the security arsenal for data stored in databases, files and applications, and for data in transit....

Tokenization reduces the scope of risk, data storage requirements and changes to applications and databases, while maintaining referential integrity and streamlining the auditing process for regulatory compliance. Suitable to heterogeneous IT environments that use mainframes and distributed systems for back office applications and a variety of endp...

Concerns over the safety and security of client data, as well as their own data, have increased among CPAs recently....

A merger can be an extremely disruptive time for an IT department. It would be more of a coincidence than an expectation that two merging companies would have the same IT infrastructure and use the same FTP and encryption algorithms. Best-in-class managed file transfer solutions are designed for heterogeneity, supporting multiple protocols and runn...

If the merchant’s cardholder data can be taken out of scope or rendered useless to the criminal through methods such as end-to-end encryption, tokenization or EMV, fraud liability and costs associated with PCI compliance can be substantially reduced. A recent flurry of public data breaches has heightened awareness of both the need for and the...