Security -- Network

The new anti-virus service from SecureConnect offers customers a managed solution that protects computer systems from viruses that can disrupt their network, delete data or expose businesses to hackers and thieves.

First Data and Hypercom have teamed-up on a number of fronts to fight credit card fraud; plans include the integration of the HyperSafe Remote Key System as an added layer of protection for First Data users and more.

This integrated offering is expected to enable hotels using OpenBook software to protect sensitive cardholder and payment account information with E3.

In response to numerous, well-publicized data breaches, virtually every state in the country has enacted data security breach notification laws. Although there is no single compliance checklist, the following principles promise to help operators to reduce their company's exposure to data breaches.

The Classic RFID upgrade kit allows the Best Western Hôtel de la Paix to keep most of their existing Classic locks and replace only the bezel card reader.

Vendor Safe's LAN Scribe Logging Client is local area network event logging and notification solution that promises to equip restaurants and credit card merchants with superior card fraud security protection.

T.G.I. Friday's is using a tokenization technology to remove customer credit card data at the point of sale, and instead house that information in Merchant Link's secure "vault."

Officials of The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites announced that the hotel's four restaurants and its valet parking operations may have suffered a data security breach between April 2009 and December 2009.