PCI and Beyond - How to Secure Data in the Most Cost Effective Manner
Summary The Payment Card Security Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), US State and federal laws encourage and require businesses to encrypt consumers' computerized personal information and payment data. Most state data breach notice laws do n...

Kentico CMS 4.0 Combines Content Management and Social Networking
Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, February 10, 2009 – Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), a Web content management system vendor, announced the release of a new 4.0 version of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. The new version combines full-featured Web conte...

Secure Start-Up for Retail Point of Sales Systems
Secure start-up of encryption services in a typical retail POS configuration can be provided by implementing the following (very general) best practices: Each Local Security (Encryption) Service should be locked upon start-up. While locked, all sens...

Microsoft Certification – Is it the Right Thing to Do?
Information Technology is a rapidly changing industry with constant changes in software technology. The IT industry is very volatile and demands very high quality of professionals. Preferably those who are internationally certified by I.T. Giants lik...

How to implement ‘end to end’ encryption in a retail environment across File Systems, Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server
Many consider the insider threat to represent the greatest vulnerability and exposure to enterprise resources. This approach safeguards information by cryptographic protection from point-of-creation to point-of-deletion, to keep sensitive data locked...

Securing Data beyond PCI in a SOA environment - Best Practices for Advanced Data Protection
New business models rely on open networks with multiple access points to conduct business in real time, driving down costs and speeding responses to revenue generating opportunities. That’s the good news. The bad news is that this modern business arc...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Protecting Data in a Retail Environment
Summary The overall purpose of information security is to control risk by managing the impact of threats to information assets in the most cost-effective manner. This article takes a look at a typical Point-Of-Sale (POS) solution, identifying common...

How to Prevent Internal and External Attacks on Data - Securing the Enterprise Data Flow against Advanced Attacks
Summary Well documented breaches have heightened the public’s and regulatory agencies’ concerns about how well companies are securing consumer-specific information. Despite some initial advances, sensitive information is still commonly stolen. Inter...

A case study - Selecting a code review approach
Coding standards help developers avoid introducing flaws that can lead to security vulnerabilities. Testing standards and best practices help to ensure that testing focuses on detecting potential security vulnerabilities rather than concentrating onl...

Web Application Firewalls and Code Reviews - PCI Best Practices
Introduction Organizations handling credit cards feel pressure building as the deadline for PCI Requirement 6.6 compliance [1] has passed and well documented breaches have heightened the public and regulatory agencies' concerns about how well compan...

VBA replace old date with today's date (in the form of 29th July 2007)
Sub Insert_Date()'' Insert_Date Macro' Macro created 11/30/2006 by Suranthe de Silva' Please note that this Macro finds the next number that is in the form of 200#' and assumes that this is the date which is like: 2nd October 2007, ' it then replac...

An "Outlook like" user control
Introduction This is a control that behaves like the Tab control but have visual cues that look more like the Navigation panel in outlook. And since this is more of a tab control than a navigation panel control, you are free to add as many tabs as...

IP address into an integer
hi to all, this code can convert ip address to an integer....

Converting DBF to XLS by double click event
hi to all, This code will convert ur DBF file to XLS .save this file to extension vbn,edit the path u want to provide then it will work smoothly. cheers sreejith...

Simple function to get file name from active page
Code: '***[begin : simple func to get file name from active page]***'Function FileName() Dim VarPath, ArrPath '***[path for the active page/file]***' VarPath = Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME") '***[splits path into array]***' ArrPath = Spl...

Datalist Paging (Page No. Wise)
As datalist does not support paging like gridview. You may require to use paging with datalist. Here is code which will help you to connect paging with your datalist, if your datalist contains large records. Don't forget to include: using System.D...

Backup Non System Database
declare @int int ,@dbname varchar(22)set @int = 0while (@int beginset @dbname = (select [name] from master..sysdatabases where dbid=@int) if (@dbname != 'tempdb') begin BACKUP DATABASE @dbname TO DISK = @dbname WITH INIT end set @int = @i...

Window Without Alert Message.
Close the Window (Main) without any confirmation message. No need to open a new full screen Window or new popup Window. Both IE & NS scripts are written differently. If you like the script then please rate it. The only code available on net tilld...

HotcakesCMS -Open Source CMS Software
HotcakesCMS is an intuitive, NZ developed piece of website software. 5 minute installation for a fully functional website. Particularly designed with the small to medium businesses in mind as well as web developers, designers and technical people who...

Create Backup for your work using VB.Net
Create Backup for your Daily or Weekly work and reterieve your Data in your hard disk or network through VB.NET ...

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