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Ditch Typical Anti Virus for True PCI Requirement 5 Compliance

Anti virus doesn’t protect; it cleans up malware infections after the fact.

DROWN Attack and SSL: What You Need to Know

Here’s what you need to know about DROWN.

Four Steps to Securing Your Medical Devices

Unfortunately, many healthcare organizations aren’t properly securing their medical devices, leaving them open to cyber attacks.

Badlock: Combatting the New Samba Vulnerability

The New Samba vulnerability could expose companies to man-in-the-middle attacks.

Healthcare Compliance Case Studies for HIPAA Solutions

SecurityMetrics HIPAA solution testimonials from real healthcare entities like you.

Finding and Reducing PCI Scope: How to Make Compliance Easier

Learn how to find PCI scope, reduce it, and protect your cardholder data.

Employee Cyber Security Training: What You Should Do

Don’t let employee cyber security training fall to the side.

A Snapshot of the 2017 SecurityMetrics Guide to HIPAA Compliance: The Status of Healthcare Security

See how healthcare organizations are managing their firewalls. Do you know if your firewalls are HIPAA compliant?

Holiday Security Tips

Holiday Security Tips: While the busyness of the holidays can provide cover for cybercriminal activity, there are a few things your business can do to protect against data breaches this holiday season.

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 aftermath—are increasing in frequency.

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, should I be worried?

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

Learn the bases about the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.

GDPR 101 Part 3: What Should I Do Now?

If you are a merchant, or any organization that handles the personal data of European Union citizens, you will need to comply with the GDPR. Here are three ways you can make progress today towards your GDPR compliance.

Cybersecurity Attack Surfaces: How to Protect All Your Locations

Properly identifying and addressing attack surfaces requires scoping, specialization, and the help of security professionals.

COVID-19 Cyber Attacks: Threat Report and Best Practices

We caution all SecurityMetrics customers, merchants, and businesses to remain extra vigilant around cyber threat actors who are exploiting this global crisis to their advantage.

Disturbing Trends In Data Breach Responses

The SecurityMetrics Threat Intelligence Center has observed a disturbing trend in data breach responses over the past few months of businesses downplaying the severity of data breaches using a variety of tactics and techniques.

Garmin Ransomware Attack: SOC Threat Analysis and 10 Lessons Learned

The global pandemic has created more opportunities for ransomware threat actors to create mayhem and chaos across the threat landscape.

Guide to HIPAA Security Rule, Privacy Rule, and Breach Rule

Did you know that protected Health Information (PHI) is extremely valuable to hackers, even more so than credit card data?

Cybersecurity Workforce Training FAQs

This blog addresses cybersecurity workforce training FAQs and provides many resources to help businesses strengthen their security and train their employees.

Ecommerce Security Trends from 2021

The results from Shopping Cart Inspect have been insightful into the current and future attack methods in ecommerce. Here are our Ecommerce Security Trends From 2021.

GDPR Explained: FAQs and Best Practices

The May 25th, 2018 deadline for GDPR has come and gone. So what is the state of GDPR compliance now?

Holiday Online Shopping and Cyber Attacks

The FBI reports that phishing, spoofing, and texting scams have gone up 400 percent since the beginning of the COVID pandemic.

10 Tips for Keeping Security in the Budget

Security doesn’t have to be expensive to be effective. Here are 10 tips for effective, reasonable security.

2014 Infographic - 63% of businesses don't encrypt credit cards

This is our third study on stored, unencrypted card data. When compared to last year, the storage has actually decreased.