SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - August 19, 2008) - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO)
Cisco conducted an Internet TV roundtable with PCI experts and executives
from the retail and healthcare industries on July 30. They discussed the
evolution of security threats, real-world business challenges, PCI's role
and the approach to managing compliance. Following are the highlights of
that roundtable:
Highlights / Key Facts:
Data-security-related attacks on the healthcare industry have increased
85 percent between January 2007 - January 2008 (source: Secure Works).
One in four healthcare executives does not know where his or her
sensitive data is located (source: Secure Works).
In the 19th annual CIO survey conducted by the Health Information
Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 86% of respondents report actively
assessing and managing security risk.
In the HIMSS survey the most widely installed security technologies
include firewalls, user access controls and audit logs. Priority
investments during the next two years include single sign-on (49%),
biometric technologies (42%) and email encryption (34%).
Protecting customer credit card information has been at the forefront
of retailers' minds for several years. Data theft is now moving downstream
from large retail organizations to include regional chain store
establishments.
On the credit card transaction front, buying stolen credit cards is
cheap and easy to do; there is a large international underground business
where people can buy stolen credit card numbers and use them to go
shopping.
Protecting critical assets within an organization is an ongoing
educational process rather than a list of checklist of items that need to
be covered to meet security-compliance requirements. In essence, driving
security of your critical assets requires ongoing vigilance in four key
areas: education, operations, regulatory and corporate policy compliance
and technology.
Tags / Keywords:
Cisco, PCI, Healthcare, Retail, Halamka, Security, Vulnerability, networks,
Payment Card Security, Credit, Debit, Data Leakage, Data Protection,
Security Breach
Links / URLs:
IPTV Broadcast with Cisco PCI experts, customers
http://tools.cisco.com/cmn/jsp/index.jsp?id=77094 Quotes:
"The privacy of patient information is foundational to the healthcare
industry. The new PCI security standards are important additions to the
larger data security picture for health organizations. I like regulations
like PCI because it gives us a floor. It provides us with community
standards for best practices in protecting patient data and I think that's
good thing for healthcare."
Dr. John Halamka, MD | CIO of CareGroup Health System
"I don't believe that you should build the architecture to meet the
compliance, you should build the architecture to meet your security needs
and if you build it properly you're going to take care of all the
standards."
Carrie Peters | Vice President of IT and IS, Jones-Onslow Electric
Membership Corporation
Video Commentary From PCI Experts, Cisco Customers:
The Role of PCI - Overcoming Challenges and Ensuring Better Protection
http://www.youtube.com/v/nIkJ1N1s628
A Customer's Approach to PCI: Carrie Peters, CIO of Jones-Onslow Electric
Membership Corporation
http://www.youtube.com/v/yU7pZ12ooiA
PCI and the Retail Industry: Challenges and Solutions
http://www.youtube.com/v/cfG5EKwRmkQ
The Connection Between PCI and Healthcare
http://www.youtube.com/v/ohc0WiNQ9L0 News@Cisco RSS Feed:http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/rss.html
Contact Information: Contact Information:
Chris Barker
+1 206 679-8151
chrbarke@cisco.com