Security Tales from an IT Road Warrior
By Dwayne Melancon, Tripwire’s VP of Corporate and Business Development
To net it out, there is a lot going on – some converging, some diverging. Choosing from different solutions to the same problems is what our jobs as business and IT practitioners are about. That’s why we get paid the industry-adjusted, median bucks.
Does PCI DSS Expose Risk Or Create It?
By Ed Rarick, PCI Evangelist at Tripwire
There is something wrong here and PCI DSS is exposing it, not causing it. “When people say PCI is too hard, many really mean to say compliance is not cheap. The business risks and ultimate costs of non-compliance, however, can vastly exceed implementing PCI DSS – such as fines, legal fees, decreases in stock equity, and especially lost business. Implementing PCI DSS should be part of a sound, basic enterprise security strategy, which requires making this activity part of your ongoing business plan and budget.”
