CASE STUDY Global Corporation Secures Data and Meets PCI Compliance Goals An Unsustainable Risk PCI DSS requirements call for credit card information to be encrypted in transit and at rest. The corporation could ensure compliance for card data in its structured data environment, but unstructured data was another story. Internal audits conducted after the acquisition revealed that some employees were storing unencrypted credit card numbers on their computers. Employees of the recently-acquired company had extracted the card numbers from databases and saved them in spreadsheets, documents, and other file types. Security administrators could not determine how widespread the problem was, because they lacked visibility into the files that were being stored on employee desktops and la

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