The Point of Sale (POS) Breaches Continue

August 15, 2016 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

So far this week (and it is only Monday), we have two POS breaches in the news. HEI Hotels and Resorts, which manages almost 60 hotels for Starwood, Hilton, Marriott and other chains announced that 20 of their locations, covering all of their brands, had suffered breaches. While they have not said how many cards […]

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Best Practices, Breach

Vendor and Supply Chain Risk

October 30, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

Businesses have always outsourced work. It used to be plumbers and what were referred to as “the trades”. Now it is programmers and manufacturing. What is different now is the degree of connectedness that those suppliers have. A couple of examples: Target uses HVAC contractors to maintain the refrigeration in their stores. It used to […]

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