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As an education sponsor of the event, Foregenix had an education session in the morning where Andrew Henwood, Director at Foregenix, gave a very well packed room a presentation on the Diary of a Forensic Investigator with a few secrets revealed. From the interest we have had in our forensic case studies and statistics, its clear that the industry is lacking information on how talented the "baddies" are - suffice to say that some of the recent attacks we have investigated have levels of sophistication that far surpass much of the protective measures that the average business has in place. 

Hopefully a few of the attendees managed to glean a few useful tips to take back to their businesses to improve the protection of their vital business assets.

In addition to the strong interest in the forensic experiences of Foregenix, we also had a surge in enquiries about our cardholder data discovery solution, FScout.  We lost count of the people who came up to us asking for information on how to identify the unprotected cardholder data across their business - it seems that PCI DSS v2.0 is finally beginning to hit home with businesses realising that using sophisticated tools such as FScout, they are able to identify exactly where they have cardholder data, reduce their PCI scope, their PCI risk and associated PCI costs... and then they are able to proactively monitor for data leaks - usually indicating changed configurations, broken business processes or malicious behaviour. All which would be of high interest to any security manager intent on reducing risk and protecting their business.

We will be attending the PCI London event in July again, but in the meantime, if you are looking for information on forensic investigations, cardholder data discovery, or guidance on PCI DSS, please get in touch.

Thank you AKJ - a very good day with a lot of positive feedback from the many attendees we met.