... main street businesses. Theres no longer a question of whether or not a company will have a data security breach — its a question of when, according to Thomas Katona, president, managing ... at the recent PLUS Annual International Conference in San Francisco. In light of these trends, Katona discusses how data security is an emerging sales opportunity for independent insurance agents ...

... may end up finding--quite belatedly--that they've suffered a breach. T-Mobile Contacts The ICO It was this regular monitoring ... .  The media are painting their headlines as if T-Mobile was behind this breach (The BBC's title, "T-Mobile ... monitor stuff.  Many companies are willing to invest in data security, like encryption software, but once in place, believe that  ...

... privacy in the revised ePrivacy Directive. But it is now crucially important to broaden the scope of the security breach provisions to all sectors and further define the procedures for notification. Also, the ... /58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and ...

... federal law that would supersede the growing mountain of state data security laws and give enterprises a simplified, one- ... operations at Barclaycard U.S. Well, the Data Breach Notification Act has an exemption for data that "was rendered ... hard to help you," but it actually doesn't help the average person whose data gets stolen and resold, and has his credit destroyed. David ...

... will argue that we are not ready for HITECH's security breach notification rules. Consider this recent story on Healthcare IT ... hospitals indicated that the HITECH Act's expanded breach notification requirements will result in the discovery and reporting ... reported that they now have a greater level of awareness of data breaches and breach risk; and 90 percent indicated they have changed ...

... , Visa Europe confirmed that "it is aware of a possible card data security issue in Spain. No details are yet confirmed, but we ... developments" to find out the extent to which card account data had been placed at risk. He stressed that MasterCard's own systems had not been compromised Related articles by ZemantaCredit card security breach fear (news.bbc.co.uk) Germany in ...