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April 2013 Roundup standard

What was popular in April? April was a rough month for many folks (as it historically has been). We have had crazy weather all over the US, and I was able to experience a few new cities with El Wiforino. Thank goodness for the great food choices in London! I’m so glad that was our last stop. Here are the five most popular posts from the last month: The Only Customer Service Script You Will Ever Need. This is the post that keeps on bringing people back! Maybe spring break travel issues? Check out this diversion from security that will make you think about how you interact with your customers. How Starbucks is Revolutionizing Mobile (Micro) Payments. For the fourth ...

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February 2013 Roundup standard

What was popular in February, now a few days late? If you missed RSA Conference this year in San Francisco, you missed a conference full of people charged with defense. Forget the buzzwords you heard and focus on where we are going as an industry. HOW EXCITING! Check back later this week for a post that has my presentations from RSAC. Here are the five most popular posts from the last month: How Starbucks is Revolutionizing Mobile (Micro) Payments. For the second month in a row, this post is DOMINATING the stats. You know how you see those crazy fools that pass their phone in front of some magical sensor at Starbucks and never seem to pull out their wallet, ...

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January 2013 Roundup standard

What was popular in January, a special SuperBowl Edition! The big game is over, and many of us are pouting until August because of the lack of NFL action. Or at least we’re watching reruns on the NFL network on Sundays until we can flip over to NASCAR and root for crazy (but survivable) crashes. January was a busy month for security professionals! We saw new, game changing products released and we’re all gearing up for RSA Conference at the end of this month. Here are the five most popular posts from the last month: How Starbucks is Revolutionizing Mobile (Micro) Payments. You know how you see those crazy fools that pass their phone in front of some magical sensor ...

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Flick-through Friday! standard

Sorry, that was the closest thing to alliteration I could get to for this blog. It’s Friday! How’s everyone doing after their first full week back? Other than the circus of CES 2013, things at Oracle have to be a little tense with this newly discovered massive hole in Java. I do have a couple of reading suggestions for you today as you close out the week. What has two thumbs and finally updated his Herding Cats page? THIS GUY! Man, I’m sorry about being so slow with this. No excuses. But now every issue is available, including the ones from May to this January that are now live. Go see if you can find the title that made my ...

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Top Posts of 2012 standard

It’s holiday season and things are coming to a close for the year. It was an interesting one, for sure! I wanted to take a few minutes to tell you about some of the top posts in 2012. Ever wonder what will probably cause you to have a breach? This post discusses the top five reasons why PCI DSS breaches occur. This year I offered a detailed review of specific requirements (I’m still willing to do this if people have specific ones they want reviewed… email me), and here is the top one. The debate on PCI DSS often focuses on things we need to add to the standard, but I suggest that there are things we can remove. Check ...

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Free PCI Book Giveaway! standard

OK folks, our PCI Compliance book has been out for a few months now, and Anton & I thought it would be fun to give away second copy with another contest! We have assembled a group of three independent judges who will look at the submissions and pick winners for each competition. The winner will receive a free, signed copy of the book! In fact, it would be one of those rare “dual-signed” copies with both of our signatures (and the book will have to travel from TX to CA – or from CA to TX – for this ) So, on to the second contest (first one). Our book attempts to draw a middle line between the black & ...

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November 2012 Roundup standard

What was popular in November? It was the month of the mustache! Ron Burgundy and Ron Swanson certainly set the bar; how did you fare? We saw the kickoff of the retail rush here in the west as well as some interesting new developments on both the virtualization  and the game theory fronts. Here are the five most popular posts from the last month: PCI Compliance Book Giveaway! Did you get your story in? Probably not as we only had four stories to choose from! We did pick a winner, and will be announcing soon. PCI Council Releases Risk Assessment Guidelines. Its the latest output from the 2011-2012 SIGs and it’s available for you! Go see why this may or ...

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So you want to guest post? standard

Bloggers get pelted with requests for guest posts all the time, and I’ve had a string of relatively strange ones lately. They all start with something like this: Hi, I’m Scheizenfreud McGilicutty and I love to write. I saw your website and I was wondering if you allow guests posts? Here are some samples of posts I have done on other blogs. Let me know if we can work something out. Then this is followed by seemingly unrelated blog posts like “The Top 10 Ways to Check your Email” or “A Home Security System You Can’t Miss!” It’s SPAM, but targeted SPAM. It’s not quite targeted enough where someone had to type out an email specifically for me, but it ...

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October 2012 Roundup standard

What was popular in October? We had the PCI European Community Meeting kick off another round of discussions on everything that is right (and wrong) with PCI DSS. The Board of Advisors met after that meeting, and we had a little frankensnor’eastercain cause billions of damage on the coast. I’m also interested to watch how some of the same posts keep coming back. Three of the top five were here last month as well. Here are the five most popular posts from the last month: The Definition of Cardholder Data. Man, here’s another oldie but goodie for the second month in a row. It’s still on people’s minds, probably because they are looking for ways to drop systems out of ...

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September 2012 Roundup standard

What was popular in September? Well, we certainly couldn’t get enough of the new iPhone (and by the way, I think Samsung’s commercials are ABSOLUTELY GENIUS!). We enjoyed cooler weather for all, and a fantastic Oktoberfest. We had the PCI North American Community Meeting kick off a whole new round of discussions on everything that is right (and wrong) with PCI DSS. Oh yeah, and good ol’ Brando forgot to renew the domain, so the site was down for a couple of days. It’s back up now, so we can all rejoice and be glad. Here are the five most popular posts from the last month: PCI DSS Feedback 2012. The Council released some highlights from the feedback process including ...

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