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Accellion enhances mobile management and device control features to comply with industry data security regulations

Accellion, Inc., the pioneer in providing enterprise-class, secure cellphone productivity solutions, recently announced new enhanced features for cellphone management and device control. Accellion now provides IT and security organizations with selective remote wipe, whitelisted cellphone apps and strengthened IT admin controls, enhancing the security of business-sensitive information, while complying with industry data security regulations. The Accellion enhanced remote wipe feature...

Acuity Launches Management Application Allowing Businesses To Monitor Card Data Security

A free management application that allows businesses to measure, monitor and report on their compliance to PCI-DSS v2.0 payment card data security standards, has been launched by governance, risk and compliance (GRC) specialist Acuity. Available for download from the Acuity website www.acuityrm.com, the compliance software monitors progress against the six milestones in the PCI-DSS Prioritised Approach and will identify, assess, manage and report on risks to cardholder data. It will also track r...

Security Industry Association Announces OSDP With Data Security Extension

The Security Industry Association (SIA) is pleased to announce the Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) with Data Security Extension as a new Standards Department project within the organization's American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited standards programme.OSDP was originally developed by HID Global and Mercury Security Corporation (with some recent contribution from Codebench, Inc.) as a communication protocol for interfacing peripheral devices, like card readers, to control p...