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

Melissa Dodge — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:48:00 GMT

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.

Press Release: Blackbaud Urges Nonprofits to Review PCI Compliance

Melanie Mathos — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:04:00 GMT

Blackbaud Joins PCI Security Standards Council as Newest Participating Organization
Launches PCI blog and newsletter to provide ongoing updates on key issues facing the nonprofit sector

Charleston, S.C. (June 30, 2008) – Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB) announced today that it has joined the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council as a new participating organization. As a participating organization, the company will work with the Council to evolve the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) and other payment card data protection standards.

Read to full press release here.

Blackbaud News : PCI Compliance

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

Press Release: Blackbaud Urges Nonprofits to Review PCI Compliance