In 2015 the PCI Security Standards Council set a June 30, 2018 deadline for entities accepting credit card payments to deprecate support for all versions of SSL/TLS prior to TLS 1.1 . The reasons for this requirement are a variety of security vulnerabilities (including certain flavors of man-in-the-middle and downgrade ...

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a broad-reaching regulation meant to protect the private data of Europeans in personal systems. The 99-article regulation is very long and covers a broad variety of topics. Announced in 2017, GDPR will go into effect as a requirement on May 25, 2018. GDPR applies ...

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