Re: Former Hannaford CIO: Avoid Microsoft and Change PCI'sEncryption Rule s

["Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

Retailers have problems with secuirity?  Naaahhh


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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 2:00 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Former Hannaford CIO: Avoid Microsoft and Change
PCI'sEncryption Rule s

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Via StorefrontBacktalk.

[snip]

Bill Homa, who just stepped down July 1 as the CIO for the 165-store
Hannaford grocery chain, considers Microsoft's OS to be "so full of
holes"
and describes the fact that current PCI regs do not require end-to-end
encryption as "astonishing."

But Homa's key point is that most retailers handle security backwards:
Don't pour everything in protecting the frontdoor. Assume they'll get
through and have a plan to control them once they're inside.

One of the most frustrating IT security realities in retail today is the
quintessential oxymoron: the more serious the CIO is about keeping data
secure and the more sophisticated a defense is deployed, the more points
of vulnerability emerge.

[snip]

More:
http://storefrontbacktalk.com/story/071108homa

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg(at)netzero.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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