6. The Fall Of Card Systems … minimized the impact of the data breach, testifying that the attackers wrote a shell script designed to dump transaction records for "uncompleted" transactions to an FTP site. … only 239,000 discrete account numbers FTP'd, Personal information of 40 million individuals. It will no longer be authorized to process credit card transactions through certain card association networks… Pay By Touch said Monday it will buy the assets of CardSystems Solutions
7. Only 3 Problems with FTP The People The Processes The Technology
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11. FTP alone is not a viable option to give you the insight, security and performance and, ultimately, the risk mitigation necessary to responsibly conduct business .
Examples of this are multiple data centers, multiple business units or business partners and business processes across systems. No easy task for visibility. Any one box may have visinbility, but as a process or data set leaves from inside the business to outside, 1 data center to another visibility diminishes – so does control.
Overtime things get implemented as one offs --- these one off solutions create a “hairball” of processes and data exchange across systems, data centers and geographies. Not good.
