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Industry-first partnership enhances ANX’s ability to help merchants understand how to reduce the chance of data breach and demonstrate PCI DSS compliance. 

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (August 14, 2014) – ANXeBusiness Corp. (ANX), a leading provider of managed security and PCI compliance solutions to the retail industry, announced a unique partnership with PCI University, makers of an innovative,15-minute approach to helping merchants ramp up their PCI DSS understanding and security.  The partnership with PCI University strengthens ANX’s ability to serve as a one-stop provider for merchants that need to first understand their PCI DSS obligations and then need an affordable solution delivering the technology, tools, and support required for PCI DSS compliance.  

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A pizza joint has to worry about PCI compliance. PCI Compliance is securing their customer’s credit card and personal information. A hospital has to worry about HIPAA compliance. HIPAA compliance is securing a patient’s personal information.

What if you have to worry about both?

Pharmacies are in this unique situation. They are receiving information on a customer’s prescription. This falls under HIPAA. They then have to charge the customer via credit card. This falls under PCI.

Which one is more important?

That’s a loaded question. A violation of either can result is massive fees, fines and bad PR. So both are equal and extremely important. A slip up, and you could lose your pharmacy. Fees, fines and loss of business can often stretch over $100,000 following a...

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Solution protects pharmacy and healthcare practice owners from the growing risk of HIPAA fines while simplifying HIPAA compliance

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (May 27, 2014) – ANXeBusiness Corp. (ANX), a leading provider of managed compliance and security solutions to the healthcare industry, announced the launch of SecureHIPAA.  SecureHIPAA provides pharmacies and healthcare practices with essential protection from the growing risk of HIPAA fines while helping them assess their level of HIPAA compliance and correct any gaps.  ANX also announced that healthcare businesses could now obtain both HIPAA and PCI compliance protection in a single, affordable solution called SecureCompliance.  This solution provides comprehensive financial protection against HIPAA and PCI violations, plus...

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Ebay, the online auction site, recently revealed that a hacker may have copied all 145 million users to the site. This information includes home address, encrypted passwords, e-mails and birth dates. No financial data, including Paypal, was comprised.

So, with the numbers affected, it’s likely you are on the list. So what can you do now to protect yourself?

1. Change your password. Go on eBay right now and update your password. As we always breach, use a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers and a special character.
2. Change other passwords. This applies if you use your eBay password on other web site. E-mail, social media, utilities, banking, etc.  Remember to always use different passwords on different sites and accounts. So if you, don’t this is the time to do...
   
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It was recently revealed that the Heartbleed bug, a vulnerability in the OpenSSL program that powers encrypted communication to many of the world's web sites and private networks, may have affected as many 500,000 systems.

It was recently announced to customers that ANX were not affected because the versions of SSL ANX uses were not vulnerable to the bug.

"We initiated both internal and external scans with neither scans showing a compromise in our system's vulnerability," said Jim Schmidt, ANX Executive Vice President of Operations.

So why is this a big deal? The bug could expose any data that the OpenSSL process can read. This means usernames, passwords, private keys and even credit card and social security numbers could be easily accessible. 

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