Real-Life IT Horror Stories: The Avoidable DNS Disaster

While acting as vice president of a performance-based Internet marketing company, I oversaw the migration to a new infrastructure, an important part of which involved changing over 300 of our DNS records. Imagine my horror when I discovered that we’d mistakenly misrouted nearly all of those records, taking the entire company down.

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CISSP Question of the Week: Customer Credit Card Information

CISSP Question of the Week courtesy of Transcender Labs. Your company has an e-commerce site that is publicly accessible over the Internet. The e-commerce site accepts credit card information from a customer and then processes the customer’s transaction. Which standard or law would apply for this type of data? A. The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 B. […]

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