in June 2012 took to the court a suit in opposition to management of the Wyndham hotel chains for the misrepresentation of its data security measures avert interference of the system by computer hackers. FTC claimed that Wyndham subjected clients’ information to unjust and misleading lack of data safety that to information security law. The suit involved three security breaches involving 500,000 stolen credit card numbers; another breached 50,000 credit card numbers and lastly, 69,000 in the other hotel chains.
The basis of argument by FTC was that the management successfully failed to implement well-know security measures. The plaintiff noted that the Management did not implement a network set-up separating hotel system and the corporate …show more content…
Conversely, posting on these sites by either the hotel management or its employees, the hotel can be held liable for its posts. There is therefore a need by the management to have regulatory measures and guidelines that to protect the company against such posts. This can be done through frequent change of passwords to the social media accounts.
This Standard was developed by the Council for the purpose of safeguarding crucial client financial information. It is widely applicable to those institutions handling Master-Cards, American Express and Visas. This standard is of much significance to hospitality industry which constantly deals with vast client financial information using Visas, Master-cards and American Express. Compliance with this standard protects the industry from a breach of information security protection.
This Council is a global forum formed in 2006 to develop and maintain PCI standards consisting, of Payment Application Data Security, Personal Identity Number Transaction Security and Data Security …show more content…
To be trusted, competitive and profitable, information security is a paramount. The Standard gives both the suppliers and clients the confidence to trust in the company that safeguards their information. It also ensures that the company keeps important information safely and secured. Organization’s ability to comply with this Standard demonstrates its ability to comply with other contractual requirements related to data privacy, information technology governance and data security. The compliance acts as the benchmark of quality information protection measure.
The Pay Card Industry Security Standards Council gives healthy, inclusive standards supporting material for the protection of crucial information. The materials comprise of; measurements, support tools and specification framework to assist firms safeguard important information at every stage. The foundation is that this Standard provides actionable outline in the development of a vigorous payment card security which consist of; detection, taking necessary reactions steps and prevention of security