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Banking on biometrics – can the password survive in 2017?
With the rise of biometrics within financial services, could you become your own password? Bill Gates claimed the password could not meet the challenge of keeping information secure and predicted its demise. That was back in 2004. Thirteen years later, passwords are still very much alive. The average person has about 90 passwords, according to password [...]
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Webinar: Data Protection in the Changing Payments Landscape
With continued improvements in payments security through technologies such as P2PE and EMV, the PCI community has been effective at combating crime in a wide variety of financial institutions, retail environments and enterprises. As the use of stolen or fraudulent cards for in-person card present transactions becomes more difficult, criminals are shifting their focus to [...]
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Prints charming: biometric security reaches the billions
According to Deloitte, the active base of fingerprint reader-equipped devices offering biometric security will top 1 billion for the first time in early 2017. Each sensor will be used, on average, 30 times a day, resulting in more than 10 trillion aggregate uses globally. According to Deloitte, approximately 40% of all smartphones in developed countries will [...]
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2017 the year of creative cyber criminality – ten cyber security trends
Privacy and cyber security will dominate the corporate agenda next year. The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is less than 18 months away – and privacy has suddenly made it to the top of the corporate agenda – not just in Europe. The GDPR tilts the scales in the direction of the European citizen, [...]
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Data security: Card data security ten years on
Ten years after the founding of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), we present a mid-term report on the industry’s data security efforts. As both cyber attacks and regulatory interest in data privacy and protection increase, we also examine the outlook for data security and PCI DSS. Asked why he robbed banks, prolific [...]
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