If you want to find out more about the recent Ingrian acquisition by SafeNet and have an interest in Data Privacy you probably want to register for this event. The good people at Ingrian were kind enough to let us know about this in advance. Here is the official invite:

Featured Customer Speakers:
Matt Haynes - Senior Manager, Infrastructure Performance Assurance, U.S. Cellular
Sreenivas Kancharla - Senior Manager and Lead Security Architect, Symantec

Featured Analyst:
Jon Oltsik - Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
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Sounds too good to be true—is probably what some people are thinking. But that’s exactly what encryption vendor Ingrian Networks is offering to customers. With the rapid approach of the next PCI deadline on September 30, 2007, there has been a lot of discussion around compliance: what it really means to be compliant, what actions need to be taken, and how can they be taken in time to meet these deadlines.

I wanted to find out whether it’s realistic to get PCI compliant within 60 days. I had the opportunity to conduct an email interview with Cary Sholer, an independent information security consultant that specializes in large scale and complex security deployments.
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When Visa on Monday released its latest PCI compliance statistics, it showed small but steady progress, with slight increases in most areas. But it also showed that there is still a small handful of major retailers who are still retaining prohibited credit card information.

Visa stressed in its statement that the vast majority (96 percent) of Level 1 and Level 2 merchants—a category including virtually all of the nation’s largest retailers—have written to Visa that “they are not storing sensitive account data” including credit card security codes and PINs.
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Over the last couple of days there have been rumors whether the massive breach at TJX might have been an “inside-job”. This is probably fueled by the fact that the attacker apparently had access to the crypto keys within TJX’s data center. Whether it was an inside-job or not, doesn’t really matter at this point.
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