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PCI compliance: The best defense is a great defense

CIO Business Intelligence

PCI DSS compliance is a robust defense that significantly mitigates the risks involved with all three. Cybersecurity experts at Verizon Consulting Services draw on hands-on experience in solving payment card security challenges dating back to the formation of the PCI security regulation in 2002.

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insightsoftware Acquires Certent, Inc.

Jet Global

Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Roseville, Calif., This results in reduced risk, tightened compliance, improved productivity, and higher employee satisfaction. founded in 2002, helps customers elevate their business with smart, intuitive solutions for modern finance. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. About Certent.

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Speed up queries with the cost-based optimizer in Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Doing it before risks unnecessary aggregation overhead because each value is likely unique anyway and that step will not result in an earlier reduction in the amount of data transferred between intermediate stages. Grouping after joining means a large number of records have to participate the join before being aggregated.

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4 Reasons Why GRC Is a Useless Term

John Wheeler

It has been 5 years since Gartner embarked on the journey to enhance our coverage of the risk management technology marketplace. That journey included in-depth survey research and countless interactions with our end-user clients to understand their need to better manage strategic, operational and IT/cybersecurity risks.

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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

1 Slowly but surely, institutional investors started to recognize that companies could potentially improve financial performance and risk management by focusing on ESG issues like greenhouse gas emissions. The total—$639 billion—shed light on how shareholders were starting to invest out of principle versus strictly profit.

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Data Privacy and Internet Safety Tips for College Students

Smart Data Collective

College students are often believed to be least at risk, because they are more tech-savvy and presumably know how to stop data breaches. Since they use the Internet a lot more than their older peers, they might actually be at an even higher risk. Why Are College Students at Risk of Online Threats? What Research Shows.

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12 Cloud Computing Risks & Challenges Businesses Are Facing In These Days

datapine

This increases the risks that can arise during the implementation or management process. The risks of cloud computing have become a reality for every organization, be it small or large. The next part of our cloud computing risks list involves costs. One of the risks of cloud computing is facing today is compliance.

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