The onslaught of cyber-attacks and organized criminals seeking to steal corporate data has put even the most well-defended organizations at risk of suffering a data breach. While organizations shouldn’t give up their efforts to institute preventative IT security controls, they should also steel themselves to the all-too-real possibility of suffering a breach at the hands ...

INetU regularly comes across pitfalls that make cloud audits more painful for its SaaS clients and their end customers when they undergo on-site and survey audits. Preparation is the key to successfully navigating cloud audits and one of the biggest points of preparation is knowledge. Whether a SaaS service provider or an enterprise, organizations can ...

With the unveiling of new rule changes by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council (SSC) in November 2013, enterprise compliance and security professionals face the third full evolution of PCI Data Security Standards since its introduction. With added requirements around practices such as risk management and third-party responsibility, as well as additional technical ...

Technology service providers who market to healthcare organizations have long had to contend with the intricacies and nuances of the data privacy provisions in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Whether cloud providers, electronic health record (EHR) services firms or software as a service (SaaS) providers, these companies have always been classified as ...

Financial institutions have the opportunity to streamline operations and realize savings from the cloud just like many organizations in other industries have achieved before them. But unlike organizations in less sensitive and less regulated verticals, financials have been understandably hesitant to place all of their trust in cloud services. By tackling some common hang-ups such ...

Many organizations shy away from hosted and cloud-based services due to security qualms. But often those fears are based on flawed assumptions about the security of cloud environments compared to in-house counterparts. We take a clear-headed look at how cloud security truly stacks up against traditional environments when it comes to security and compliance, and ...