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Top 5 PCI Blog Posts for SMBs

PCI for SMBs: as an SMB owner, your business size and card processing environment will ultimately determine which SAQ you need to follow. But it’s...
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Resources from the PCI Council: Payment Data Security Essentials

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI Council or PCI SSC) recently announced the release of a “Payment Data Essentials” series...

GDPR 101 Part 2: What are the Requirements of GDPR?

Learn the bases about the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. This article covers the “what” of the GDPR: its terms, requirements, and the...

What are the 12 requirements of PCI DSS Compliance?

What are the 12 requirements of PCI? The PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a security standard developed and maintained by...

Takeaways from Our 2018 PCI Guide

Looking for a Guide to PCI Compliance? Merchants use the 2018 SecurityMetrics PCI Guide both as a desk-side PCI reference and as a tool to direct...

What's Inside Our 2018 PCI Guide

We’ve officially launched our 2018 Guide to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Compliance. Inside our PCI Guide you’ll find...

No Spreadsheets Needed: Manage HIPAA Compliance in...

Health organizations were hit hard in 2017—the healthcare industry experienced 23.7% of total data breaches that year. This trend of cyber-attacks...

GDPR FAQs

GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. It was designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, protect and empower all EU...

2018 PANscan Results: Storage of Credit Card Data on the Rise

Primary account numbers (PAN) are the 14-, 15-, or 16-digit credit card numbers used to identify individual cards. If merchants unknowingly store...

2018 HIPAA Guide: Highlights for Business Associates

We released the SecurityMetrics 2018 Guide to HIPAA Compliance on November 30, 2017. Business associates (BA) and small entities will benefit from...

PIIscan: Find and Secure Unencrypted Personal Data

SecurityMetrics PIIscan helps you find unencrypted data and comply with security mandates What is PII, and why do I need to find it? Personally...

GDPR 101 Part 1: Should I Be Worried?

With the EU’s GDPR compliance date looming (May 25, 2018), businesses are in varying states of readiness and awareness. Many are likely wondering,...

How to Start a HIPAA Risk Analysis

How to Start a HIPAA Risk Analysis. A risk analysis is the first step in an organization’s Security Rule compliance efforts. It’s the “physical”...

2017 PCI DSS Data Breach Trends

What can we learn about PCI compliance from 2017 data breach trends? 2017 was a year marked by massive hacks like Equifax, rampant malware like...

Employee Data Security Training: Tabletop Exercises

Learn how to prepare for a data breach by conducting drills, exercises, and security trainings Massive data breaches—and their devastating...

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