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Help Charities Cross the Finish Line this Holiday Season
Darryl Rosen, former President and Owner of a Chicagoland Institution, Sam's Wines & Spirits, has written a book for charity. Sharing a lifetime of lessons from business and a love/hate relationship with marathon running, Darryl's newest book will help businesses and organizations cross the finish line with their customers. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the book will be directly donated to many worthwhile charities.
Can Hypnotherapy For Sports Help Enhance Sports Performance? Yes, Says Tiger Woods
Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy have come a long way from the primitive notions of it being related to mumbo-jumbo and sinister magicians. Today, the world is recognizing hypnotherapy for what it really is ? a life changing force which allows you to conquer your mind. And we would all agree that our mind is indeed the greatest instrument we have to alter our life and to change its course towards success. In the recent years there has been a lot of speculation over hypnotherapy, and it has been found that one of the areas where it can really work for you is to improve your sports performance. If you are an athlete, or aspire to be a sport star; it would be an entirely wise decision to consider hypnotherapy for further honing your skills, and come ...
Santa Fe Films Releases New Video Series to Help People Buy Their Dream Homes in Paradise
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Free Educational Forum For Alzheimer's Family Caregivers. Facing Challenges After a Dementia Diagnosis.
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This free educational forum for family caregivers will address the issues facing families caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's Disease. A panel that includes an Internist, Neurologist, and others who will offer practical advice to caregivers on: healthy and successful caregiving, preparing and protecting yourself and your estate, recognizing and understanding changes in health and more.
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SPENDonLIFE to Give Away Free Online Mortgage Calculator for Website Owners
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Americas Watchdog Offering Free Advice For Auction Rate Securities Victims As Way To Cut Through The Wall Street Propaganda on ARPS & ARS
Americas Watchdog is offering to help all victims of the auction rate securities scandal. The group has termed the auction rate securities debacle, "the single worst case of fraud in US history". In the auction rate securities scandal, over 100,000 US citizens were told by their name brand US bank, a high profile Wall Street stock brokerage firm, or a financial institution that there was no risk in something called an auction rate security, they were liquid, they were just like cash, there was no risk". In this case its $320 billion dollars. This represents the life savings of most victims. Victims can call Americas Watchdog anytime at 866-714-6466 or visit their web site at http://ARSWatcchdog.
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There are Many Stop Smoking Aids if You Find You Need Help Kicking the Habit!
Smokers may have their own individual reasons to want to quit smoking because they may be affected by the harmful effects of smoking or may want to live longer or maybe doing so on their doctors recommendations. Cigarettes be they light, lower-tar or regular have more than four thousand chemicals of which at least forty may cause the smoker to contract cancer. The nicotine in the cigarette is the reason why people crave the next light.
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The PCI DSS Standards For Information Security
The Standards for information security in the modern, fast-paced business environment will continue to grow and evolve as the tactics and techniques that hackers and other criminals use also evolve. The PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) was created by the five major credit card companies to be a tool and a standard by which merchants can employ and maintain a secure business environment for their customers.
The PCI DSS is a set of 12 requirements that any merchant that processes, stores, or transmits sensitive credit card data must adhere to. These requirements are not all easy, nor are they necessarily cheap to implement. They are, however, very necessary.
So what, exactly, are the information security requirements of the PCI DSS? Some are more simple than others, some are (or should be) common sense, others are more complex and, because of their less-than obvious nature, are included specifically because they get overlooked by merchants and targeted by hackers.
We'll begin with the more obvious requirements. The first and second requirements are about building and maintaining a secure network. This includes installing a firewall and keeping it up-to-date, and changing any default vendor-supplied passwords that may have come with your system. Firewalls are important components on any system for information security as they give you control over the traffic that can get into or out of your system. And most vendor-supplied passwords have already made it into the hacker community and are unsafe to keep around.
The next two requirements of the PCI DSS involve taking the necessary steps to protect cardholder data. This begins with simple steps like keeping stored data to a bare minimum, and can also include making sure that you keep all your own passwords encrypted, and all physical access limited to specific people. It gets a little more complex when you start encrypting all transmissions of credit card data.
Again, some of these requirements seem obvious, but many merchants have been caught without implementing this step sufficiently. The recent decision in the famous TJX case, in fact, concluded that the company did not do everything they could have and/or should have done to protect cardholder data. This included storing and transmitting unencrypted data. What's the lesson here? Anyone can get caught not doing everything necessary for their customers' safety.
Requirements five and six of the PCI DSS deal with maintaining a vulnerability management program. This includes using and regularly updating anti-virus programs - because not all threats come from hackers. Any programs or applications you develop must also be secure. This means that you must use all patches and updates that are necessary to remain current with all the new technologies.
The next steps are about implementing strong access control measures. This includes limiting access to carholder data to business need-to-know, assigning unique Ids to everyone who has computer access and restricting physical access to cardholder data. This is important in information security for the simple reason that a lot of security can be added by knowing exactly who can see th info. And if there ever is a problem, tracing the source of the problem can be a much more efficient process.
The PCI DSS also requires that a merchant regularly tests and monitors their systems. Why? Because simple implementation isn't enough. Doing something once and expecting it to be self-sustaining isn't going to work. Regular testing is the only way to ensure that you will find any problems in the system before any criminals do.
The twelfth requirement of the PCI DSS states that you must maintain a policy on information security. What this means is that it is your responsibility to make sure each part of the company understands their own responsibility toward the PCI DSS.
It's about knowledge and information. And in the end, this knowledge can help you provide your customers with a safe environment in which to conduct electronic transactions.
Andy Eliason is a writer at Main10, Inc. If you'd like to learn more about the PCI DSS visit http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/pci-compliance/p/3/ or http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/
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