by Bonnie Kruckenberg

Wind River Financial is proud to have co-sponsored the 7th Annual Tee-Up For Nursing golf outing to raise scholarship funds for Edgewood College nursing students.

The outing was held on Monday, July 12th at Nakoma Country Club with special guest Kathy Whitworth, an 88-time LPGA champion and Hall of Fame inductee.  Nearly 90 golfers participated in this year's event, which brought the 7-year fundraising total over the half million dollar mark!

Wind River Financial has been participating in this important fundraiser since 2008, and joined Group Health Cooperative in co-sponsoring the this year's event.   The fundraising and awareness campaign are meant to call attention to the severe shortage of nurses projected in Wisconsin in the coming years.

By Doug

Wind River Financial's partner, Trustwave, will be hosting an upcoming free webinar called Understanding the PA-DSS (Payment Application Data Security Standard).  An expert will discuss what the PA-DSS is, who it applies to, and relevant deadlines for industry compliance.  Visa requires that any payment application in use must be PCI compliant.

You can register for the webinar here.

It will be held on July 20th at 1pm CDT but will also be available as a recorded session here shortly after the webinar.

In addition, you can receive direct email notice of all upcoming Trustwave webinars by registering here.

by Dan Bielinski

Two industry changes have taken effect as of July 1, 2010.

1. Visa has increased its assessment fee from .0925% to .11%
2. Visa has also issued a new payment application security mandate. Please see the blog posting dated April 16th for details, and check the list of validated payment applications to ensure that your software is compliant with these standards.

If your payment application is listed, then you needn't take any action. This means that your software is not improperly storing card information.

If your payment application is not listed, you may be vulnerable to fines from Visa or other potential penalties. In this case, you should contact your software developer to determine if there are plans to bring your payment application into compliance. If no such plan exists, we recommend that you switch to a compliant payment application already on the validated list, or, in the case of major system transitions, begin the process of planning for such a switch.

Don't hesitate to contact us if we can help with these or any other issues!

By Doug

Wind River Financial partners with Trustwave for PCI DSS compliance services for our customers.  Trustwave's SpiderLabs group will be hosting a free webinar titled: Understanding and Preventing Layer 2 Attacks.  

Layer 2 attacks involve the interception and manipulation of data at the local network level. For a merchant, this means within your computer network.  Due to the dynamic nature of local networks, Layer 2 attacks almost always succeed, allowing attackers to read and manipulate data where security controls tend to be weak. 

During this webinar, SpiderLabs experts will
 

• Define Layer 2 attacks
• Define the technologies used to instigate them
• Review best practices to prevent such attacks

IT and IS professionals with network experience will find this presentation useful.
 

Date: June 24, 2010
Time: 10:00 a.m. CDT

Please click here to register for this webinar. 

By Doug

Wind River Financial's vendor for the PCI Partner program, Trustwave,  has a new webinar available entitled "I'm Compliant...Now What?"  It will be shown on Tuesday June 15th at 1pm CDT and will be available ongoing via recorded webinar.

Many businesses do not realize that PCI compliance is not a finish line, it's an ongoing process.  It's a change in business process and thought with tactical and strategic decisions always being made with information security in mind.  This goes for both large and small businesses.

To register for this free webinar, please follow this link: I'm Compliant...Now What?