Compass IT Compliance Blog

PCI Documentation - Man's Best Friend!

by Ron Scarborough on March 28, 2018 at 10:00 AM

Nobody told you when you were tinkering with a computer as a kid that when you grew up you would be doing so much documentation, did they? Now you have an email from an auditor asking for evidence that you have documented your firewall and router configurations. In the rapidly develop …

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Online Banking for Businesses – How to protect yourself

by Derek Boczenowski on March 27, 2018 at 9:15 AM

One of the biggest areas that we see attacks on is the business online banking customer. There has been a marked increase in trying to compromise these accounts, primarily to abscond with the funds within the accounts, but also to execute identity theft as well. Many of these attacks …

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PCI Requirement 3 - Don't Store Cardholder Data!!

by Derek Morris on March 19, 2018 at 1:58 PM

This is the third blog in a 12-part series addressing each PCI DSS Requirement and the challenges faced by companies going through the process of becoming or maintaining compliance with the PCI Data Security Standards. Click here for our blog posts on requirement 1 and requirement 2. …

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Tax Scam Phishing Examples

by Geoff Yeagley on March 14, 2018 at 11:21 AM

Tax season is upon us once again. Just like every other tax year, this also marks the beginning of the annual tax season scams that bad actors use to try and steal your information or steal your money. One of the more common scams they run is they attempt to impersonate the IRS and sc …

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