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Cyber Defense Magazine Names Risk Vision Most Innovative Risk Management Product of 2014 SUNNYVALE, CALIF. - Agiliance®, Inc., the Big Data Risk Company™ and leading independent provider of integrated solutions for Operational and Security Risk programs, today announced that Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) has named RiskVision™ Most Innovative Risk Management Product in its 2014 Most Innovative InfoSec Awards competition. "Since its inception, Agiliance has pioneered and brought to market advancements in technology that help customers simplify compliance complexities and hone their risk management practices, while cutting costs, optimizing business performance, and improving productivity." You can check here. Dyman & Associates Risk Management Projects About Cyber Defense Magazine Cyber Defense Magazine is the premier source of IT Security information.Its mission is to share cutting edge knowledge, real world stories, and awards on the best ideas, products, and services in the information technology industry. Learn more about Cyber Security at DAP About Agiliance Agiliance, the Big Data Risk Company, is the leading independent provider of integrated solutions for Operational and Security Risk programs. RiskVision scales with businesses, effectively managing assets, data, people, and processes to achieve 100 percent risk and compliance coverage. Its real-time risk analysis leads to optimized business performance and better investment decisions. For more information, please visit http://dymanassociatesprojects.com/

There has been extensive adverse publicity surrounding what has become the largest data breach in the retail industry, affecting Target and two other U.S. retailers. In November-December 2013, cyber thieves executed a well-planned intrusion into Target's computer network and the point-of-sale terminals at its 1,800 stores around the holiday season and successfully obtained not only 40 million customers' credit and debit card information, but also non-card customer personal data for as many as 70 million customers. In addition, 1.1 million payment cards from Neiman Marcus and 3 million cards used at Michaels were reportedly exposed. The respected Ponemon Institute announced this June it believes that hackers have exposed the personal information of 110 million Americans-roughly half of the nation's adults-in the last 12 months alone, and this number reflects the impact of major retailer breaches and others in different governmental or business sectors, but does not include hacks revealed in July-August 2014. As we speak, there are news reports about the discovery of large quantities of personal information (including user names and passwords) mined from many websites by a Russian-based hacker group and new malware threats focused at retailers. According to a report released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, technology that is widely used to allow employees to work from home or permit IT and administrative personnel to remotely maintain systems is being exploited by hackers to deploy point-of-sale (PoS) malware that is designed to steal credit card data. This threat is being called "Backoff Malware".