My name is Jorge Flores, and I’m an Account Development Specialist at ANX.  I began my career at ANX several months ago after graduating from Western Michigan University.  Each day I speak with dozens of franchise business owners and management staff about the need for PCI Compliance.  It is extremely rewarding when I hang up with someone knowing that I bolstered their knowledge on the importance of achieving and maintaining PCI compliance. The sheer scale of misconceptions and unawareness regarding the importance of PCI compliance and the benefits it has on our data security is simply astounding.  
Receiving much publicity lately has been the data breach involving Subway.  More than 150 Subway franchisees were affected leading to the theft of...

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New gateway helps smaller businesses more cost-effectively achieve and maintain PCI DSS compliance
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (August 15, 2011)– ANXeBusiness Corp. (ANX), a leading provider of managed security, compliance and connectivity solutions, today announced Secure Cloud Gateway, an enhancement to its PCI Compliance & Security solution for small businesses. Secure Cloud Gateway includes proprietary technology with features that focus on ensuring merchant PCI DSS compliance.
The ANX PCI Compliance & Security solution affords merchants and small businesses all of the cost benefits of cloud-based technology by delivering a suite of cloud-based UTM services that eliminate threats from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware and other malware launched from malicious web...

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The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), is “a set of comprehensive requirements for enhancing payment account data security.”  In other words, PCI provides a set of tactics to protect the confidentiality and integrity of data.  Great place to start – but it’s only part of the picture.  Applying them appropriately requires situational awareness and knowledge of the company’s core values and strategy.
This series explores Sun Tzu’s approach to assessing an army’s readiness for battle as applied to compliance requirements in support of business strategies.
Assess the Risk
“Regulations are not designed to handle the kinds of threats, the kinds of vulnerabilities, and the kinds of...

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What does 2011 hold in store for your GRC program? My first three predictions were:
Prediction #1: Greater Focus on Risk Management CapabilitiesPrediction #2: Redeployment of Internal ResourcesPrediction #3: Self-Service for Greater EfficiencyPrediction #4: Increase Use of Contract / Vendor Management
Read below for my final prediction for 2011 GRC programs.
Prediction #5 | SaaS Overtakes Software
It’s no secret the traditional favorite of clients is to implement an on-premise solution.  However, in 2011, more than 50% of new implementations will leverage a SaaS delivery model for GRC.  In today’s economy, when organizations are able to take advantage of lower operating costs, faster time to value, less implementation risk, more flexibility, and less vendor...

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What does 2011 hold in store for your GRC program? My first three predictions were:
Prediction #1: Greater Focus on Risk Management CapabilitiesPrediction #2: Redeployment of Internal ResourcesPrediction #3: Self-Service for Greater Efficiency
Read below for my fourth prediction for 2011 GRC programs.
Prediction #4 | Increase Use of Contract / Vendor Management
As regulatory requirements expand, usage of the ‘cloud’ and SaaS technologies grows, and the number of obligations imposed by business partners increase, 2011 will show that leading organizations will need to utilize an enterprise-wide vendor risk management process and control library.  I believe we will see an upward trend in organizations using standard vendor assessments and leveraging industry...

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