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Protection/prevention is the first and most critical layer of any security framework. Without a proper protection layer in place, none of the other layers can be relied upon. Think of the protection layer as the traditional defensive strategy – “the wall built around assets”. This includes defining and implementing a security policy as well as hardening of the network, the system and applications. The protection layer is also where users, roles, access control and audits are set up. Key fundamentals to consider as part of the protection layer:

These types of preventative controls are necessary and intended to prevent unauthorized access to resources and data, but they cannot solely be relied on as a sustainable security strategy. Attackers’ motivations and sophistication are evolving, therefore when prevention fails, detection should kick in while there is still time to respond and prevent damage.

It is in this year, 2018, that the PSD2 (Revised Payment Service Directive) will be implemented. Instructions from the European Union (EU), banks’ monopolies on their customers’ account information and payment services will no longer be permitted.

PSD2 will enable bank clients to use third-party vendors to provide financial services on their behalf. In the near future, clients will have the option of using any provider to pay their bills via person-to-person (P2P) transfers, while still having their money assets secured in their current bank account. Banks will be obliged to ensure that these third-party providers are given access to “their” customers’ accounts through open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This will enable third-parties to build financial services on top of banks’ data and infrastructure.

All of this will significantly change a bank’s competition model. It will not be about changing account location; rather, it will be about the services that customers use. No longer will banks be competing against their peers. Instead, they will be competing against one another. PSD2 will change customer expectations; payments’ value chains; and determine what business models are profitable.

The Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP) and the Account Information Service Provider (AISP), are two entries into the EU’s changing financial system. Because of PSD2, they are service providers which will have access to the account information of bank customers. The fact is that such services could look at a user’s spending behavior and provide analysis, or even aggregate a user’s account information from several banks, looking at that as well. A PISP provider initiates a payment on behalf of the user, with P2P transfer and bill payment as component parts sure to be seen when PSD2 is enacted.

A More International Perspective

It is well understood that the EU evidences great ambition and in so doing it issues laws or directives to realize its goals. The EU ‘s involvement in the deregulation of telcos has produced spectacular outcomes. Huge operators have transformed old national monopolies in national amphi-polies, tri-polies or tetra-polies. In the meantime, the telco industry itself has been badly damaged and is now dying. Today, Europeans buy phones via the United States (US) or Korea and network switches in China or the US.

As to bank services, and with no directives, it is very possible that Citibank, Bank of America Corporation (BAC), and Chase Bank will do better more quickly if they may take advantage of the frantic activity Europeans are going to create in their homelands.

No matter what, it is clear that the mandate is for creation of a more competitive bank environment, thereby creating a global marketplace for European bank services.

GDPR: On 25th May 2018, a new European Union (EU) data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), takes effect. The GDPR gives individuals in the EU more control over how their data is used and places certain obligations on businesses that process information of those individuals. We are updating our Policy to take into account the new requirements of the GDPR.

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HPE KOREA Nonstop Technology Day 2018July 24, 2018Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea - Conrad Hotel Seoul Event Website >

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Registration is open for the 2018 NonStop Technical Boot Camp!

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Make plans to join the global NonStop community for four days of networking and learning with NonStop Engineers, Executives, Partners and Customers at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport:

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REGULAR FEE: $1695 (after 10/01/18)

Call for Papers is OPEN:

Deadline for proposal is September 1st.

The Partner SIG looks forward to reuniting with Customers and HPE this fall in the Grand Peninsula Ballroom on the Lobby level!

Kathy Wood

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Availability Digest Says Partial Outages May Be “Sick but Not Dead”

Partial failures of a system or device are among the most difficult to detect and diagnose. Just ask VISA, whose payment network suffered widespread outages in June across Europe. The outages limited or prevented transactions of over one million VISA cards. The culprit? A primary switch in one of VISA’s two UK-based, redundant data centers suffered a rare partial failure that was not detected. That switch remained in production. It was sick but not dead. As a result, there was no failover to the fully functioning backup switch; and five million transactions failed to process.

Partial failures also are called “soft” failures, “sick but not dead” failures, “grey” failures. They are rare, and few companies test for them. But systems impacted can fall victim to performance degradation, loss of access to data and processes, or long latencies that lead to total system failure. Just ask Lloyd’s Banking Group, the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Amazon Web Services, and others.

“Sick but Not Dead” is one of several articles in the July Availability Digest. They reflect the type of content that our authors undertake not only for the Digest but as content for other publications as well. We provide a variety of technical writing, consulting, marketing, and seminar services. Individuals too busy to write articles themselves often hire us to ghostwrite. We also create white papers, case studies, technical manuals and specifications, RFPs, presentation slides, web content, press releases, advertisements, and so on.

In addition, The Availability Digest offers one-day and multi-day seminars on High Availability: Concepts and Practices. Seminars are given both onsite and online and are tailored to an organization’s specific needs. Popular seminars are devoted to achieving fast failover, the impact of redundancy on availability, basic availability concepts, and eliminating planned downtime.

Published monthly, the Digest is free and lives at www.availabilitydigest.com. Please visit our Continuous Availability Forum on LinkedIn. We are at 803 members and counting. Follow us as well on Twitter @availabilitydig.

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