Auditing, testing and assessment for compliance, Bank Secrecy Act compliance, Basel II regulatory compliance and requirements, Compliance best practices, Electronic data discovery compliance, FACTA law requirements, FFIEC compliance guidelines, GLBA compliance requirements, HIPAA: Laws and guidelines, PCI DSS: Audits and requirements, Risk frameworks, metrics and strategy, SEC and FDIC regulations, SOX financial reporting compliance, State data security breach laws
Data governance best practices, IT disaster recovery planning and management, Risk assessment and management, Threat prevention, Risk management frameworks, metrics and strategy
Business partner and vendor security issues, Debit and credit card fraud prevention, Financial transaction protocols and security, Logical and physical security convergence
Corporate network security, ID management and access control, Online, Web and application security, Secure communications
Definition
Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data about an individual that could, potentially identify that person, such as a name, fingerprints or other biometric data, email address, street address, telephone number or social security number. A subset of PII is PIFI (personally identifiable financial information).
Microsoft plans to fix coding errors in Internet Explorer, .NET Silverlight and Microsoft Office.
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