As a response to the growth of sophisticated threats, regulatory bodies have issued guidelines and standards to ensure necessary cybersecurity processes and controls are in place across the healthcare, financial services, and retail industries to minimize the impact of an attack.

Despite increased security budgets and better defenses, organizations are losing the battle against cyber attacks. Data breaches continue to be costlier and result in more consumer records being lost or stolen, year after year.

Achieving compliance with GDPR, PIPEDA, or PCI is like reaching a destination, but of the three, only PCI includes a roadmap that leads directly to formal compliance through a linear, finite, and predictable process.

Being compliant does not necessarily equate to having a secure environment, and according to industry insiders, most if not all large organizations who have been breached in the recent past were in fact compliant with PCI-DSS at the time they were breached.

In order to provide simplicity while retaining security and control, organizations believe that there needs to be a compromise. But is a compromise actually necessary?

Here are three reasons not to delay your security and compliance efforts and protect both you and your customers’ data now.

The threat of cyber attacks, hackers and ransomware are all contributing to an increase in the amount of time and money companies are investing to protect their most valuable assets, their data and documents.

Does Encryption Cause A False Sense Of Security? Encryption is a powerful and effective tool for protecting data even if it has been stolen

Storing Data In Multiple States. Data is in more places than ever before and cyber criminals tend to lurk in dark places.

As another Christmas shopping season approaches, annual rhetoric about threats to information &payment security have started to ramp-up as they do every year .