Why we built Infosec Standards
If you have ever been handed a compliance requirement for the first time, you know the feeling. A customer asks for your SOC 2 report. A payment processor asks for your PCI attestation. A prime contractor asks about your CMMC level. You open a search engine, and an hour later you have twenty tabs open and still cannot answer the basic questions: who actually runs this standard, who is allowed to assess you against it, what document comes out the other end, who is going to read it, and what all of this is going to cost in money and in your team's time.
Texas Health Provider Suffers Ransomware Attack
Urology Austin, a healthcare provider with 13 locations in central Texas, was the target of a cyber attack on January, 22 2017. It appears that the attackers were able to encrypt data on the company servers in an attempt to charge ransom through a ransomware attack. It was not clear whether the hackers were able to actually access any of the data that they encrypted. However, notification was sent to 200,000 patients as a precaution.
Announcement: New Dallas/Fort Worth Office
Aeris Secure is pleased to announce a new office in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. This new location will help Aeris Secure better serve PCI QSA clients in the DFW area as well as the greater southern region.
Announcement: New Seattle, WA Office
Aeris Secure is expanding once again. We are now offering our comprehensive PCI/EI3PA compliance and auditing services in the Seattle, Washington area. The new office will service Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, and Olympia, WA, as well as the greater Pacific Northwest region.
Dairy Queen Data Breach Impacts Arizona Business Owners
After a few weeks of speculation, Diary Queen has confirmed that nearly 400 locations were compromised in a recent data security breach. Among the 400 locations affected, 9 were local Arizona businesses.