Earlier this month, the Trustwave 2013 Global Security Report was released, which concludes that, “The combination of business and IT transformation, compliance and governance demands and the onslaught of […]

Thanks to those who attended. Today we discussed the Four Quadrants of Behavior Change, a principle of the Venza Group and applied it to our interactions with clients. The principle […]

On April 4th, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council (SSC) announced the first three organizations to attain Affiliate membership status on the Council. ·         Australian Payment Clearing Association […]

During the recent RSA Conference 2013—dealing with matters related to encryption of information—Lieberman Software surveyed 250 IT security professionals attending the conference on a variety of data security issues.  The […]

On February 13th, SecurityMetrics released findings from its annual Payment Card Threat Report.  According to the report, two-thirds of merchants are not compliant with the PCI DSS, because these merchants […]

On March 21, 2013, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Council announced that the first PCI Community Meeting to be held in the Asia-Pacific region will be held on November 20, […]

On March 8th, 2013, Venza Group’s CTO, David Christianson, attended a full day workshop entitled “The New Learning Paradigm-Tin Can API” hosted by Kennesaw State University and ASTD. The workshop […]

In a previous posting, we discussed the guidelines regarding PCI compliance in the cloud that the PCI Security Standards Council recently released. Here, we offer additional thoughts on what this […]

The Iowa legislature is considering a bill that would codify the PCI data security standards, a signal that these standards may be influential for general data security, not just security […]

On February 13th, Trustwave, a security services firm, released key findings from its 2013 Trustwave Global Security Report.  For the first time, the retail industry surpassed the hospitality industry as […]