Data Security Lessons To Learn Right Now
Data Security Lessons To Learn Right Now Much has been said about the recent Ashley Madison (AM) hack attack, and even more was said about the subsequent data dump of highly sensitive customer information. Are there lessons to be learned from AM? To some extent—the consequences would have been worse had card data not been encrypted. But in the wake of last week’s court ruling that gives the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the authority to sue companies for failing to maintain adequate cyber security, it’s obvious that business needs to pay more attention to their security controls. The FTC Is Watching The court decision came in response to the FTC’s lawsuit against Wyndham Worldwide Corporation for digital security failures—storing payment
