Blackbaud in the News: Increasing Data Security in an Increasingly Insecure World

In the article Increasing Data Security in an Increasingly Insecure World, reporter Jeff Merron of Nonprofit Technology News discusses the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and online security with Blackbaud’s Bucky Wall, director of corporate readiness and Jake Marcinko, manager of information security.  

“The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit consumer organization, maintains, on its Web site, a chronology of U.S. data breaches. The list, which the organization began in January 2005, provides the basic details of hundreds of breaches in the for-profit, government, educational, and non-profit (charitable) sectors; breaches are common enough that the list is updated twice a week. The total number of records containing sensitive data that have been involved -- again, this is just in the U.S., and just in three years -- 252,276,766…”

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As a member of the PCI Security Standard Council, Blackbaud provides many PCI and security resources, including web seminars and a dedicated PCI blog.