CIO Australia recently posted an article suggesting that data breach notification laws drive compliance. Bob Russo is quoted quite a bit in the article, but there is a part that is missing. It’s not Bob’s fault, he is speaking from the Council’s perspective. He hit the bullseye. But what Bob does not say is what is really driving compliance. I’ve been doing PCI/CISP compliance work since 2004, not quite two years AFTER the September 26, 2002 filing of California’s SB 1386–the first State Data Breach Law. Unfortunately, many companies did not pay too much attention to it until several years later when other states started passing similar laws, especially when Minnesota passed the Plastic Card Security Act in 2007. Being ...

Here’s one of those areas where security and compliance stare at each other angrily across the table instead of skipping down the trail together singing, “Tra-la-la.” I was speaking to a friend of mine at a birthday party about this because guys don’t stay inside for the Hannah Montana makeover, we go outside and talk about beer, sports, and information security. OK, SOME of us do that. So what if I like my toes painted? Anyway, he was telling me that his company was taking the stance that private label cards, or those cards that have the company name on them instead of a Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, or JCB logo on them, should be included in their PCI ...