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Welcome to another beautiful Friday! Let’s start off today with a fun fact.

This Day in History: February 24, 1955

"A young boy is born to University of Wisconsin graduate students Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali. He is given up for adoption and taken in by a machinist and his wife in Mountain View, California. His name was Steve Jobs."

Data Breaches: The Expense That Keeps Rising

As many of you already know, the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) just released their latest report: The 2012 Data Protection & Breach Readiness Guide. This report highlights some interesting statistics from companies that experienced data breaches in 2011; the year fittingly dubbed as “The Year of the Data Breach”. Let’s take a look at some of the more notable numbers included in the...

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“The ability to spread knowledge and inspire action are two of man’s greatest gifts” -Unknown

Welcome to the third installment of my data breach prevention/PCI compliance Tip of the Week blog series!

Recently, a very large software company has come under fire after discovering a data breach in one of its servers in India. The dissent this particular breach event has drawn is not rooted in how the attack was carried out, but in the lack of data security on those servers. The customer information that was taken in the data breach was stored in plain text. Sensitive customer information (including identifying and password information) was not encrypted. This company is not alone. The sad truth is that as more and more data breaches occur, the inadequate security measures of...

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“Enabling secure, compliant connectivity between healthcare organizations”

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (February 13, 2012) – ANXeBusiness Corp. (ANX), a leading provider of managed security, compliance and connectivity solutions, is exhibiting at a platinum membership level at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS12) 2012 conference, February 20 – 24, at the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas. HIMSS is a caused-based, not-for-profit organization.  Hosting this annual conference is designed to foster world-wide collaboration exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

ANX’s MedNX delivers end-to-end, trusted connections within healthcare communities....

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Happy Friday everyone! It's been another week in the trenches talking to merchants and corporations about PCI compliance and data breach prevention. I'm doing a weekly blog summarizing some key observations. My objective with this blog is to bolster knowledge, dispel myths, and spread valuable information on various topics within the PCI compliance realm.

Data Breach Prevention/PCI compliance Tip of the Week: Change your default passwords!

A stifling amount of large data breaches involving sensitive information center around a common and highly preventable mistake; not changing default passwords! This is one of the top methods of attack that hackers use to penetrate a network.  In fact, password breach is consistently near the top of the list of data breach root causes....

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My name is Jorge Flores, and I’m an Account Development Specialist at ANX.  I began my career at ANX several months ago after graduating from Western Michigan University.  Each day I speak with dozens of franchise business owners and management staff about the need for PCI Compliance.  It is extremely rewarding when I hang up with someone knowing that I bolstered their knowledge on the importance of achieving and maintaining PCI compliance. The sheer scale of misconceptions and unawareness regarding the importance of PCI compliance and the benefits it has on our data security is simply astounding.  

Receiving much publicity lately has been a data breach involving a well renowned sandwhich shop.  More than 150 franchisees were affected leading to the theft of over 80,000...

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