ProPay Data Security Summit: a day 1 summary
Event attendance is an intriguing experience. If you have not heard the term “backchannel”, let me explain…rather, let me link to something on the subject. Read that, or at least the intro, and return…I don’t mind waiting.
Back already?
To me the backchannel is not only enabled by technology, but occurs around coffee tables and in the halls and in the murmurs during presentations. Sometimes, it is in these backchannel communications that the most can be learned. This conference is slightly different. Although the backchannel is still vibrant and intriguing…the Q/A sessions, panel discussions, and boldness of attendees have thrust much of the backchannel conversations to the forefront.
ProPay Data Security Summit: a brief note
Just a brief note that I will be blogging/tweeting from the Data Security Summit 2010 over the next few days…The plan, at least at present, is to tweet from the sessions and then blog in the evenings with either commentary on a theme or on a specific session.
If you are interested in following along on twitter, you can monitor the #DSS10 hashtag that I will be using.
If, during reading the tweets, there is anything you want me to address with a specific presenter please tweet, or e-mail, and I will be happy to oblige.
Payment Instruments: a thought exercise
One of the benefits of plane travel is the opportunity to sit in relative silence (except for the screaming child and angry passenger) and simply read.
Every flight that I take I either print, or load onto kindle, hefty materials that are otherwise difficult to consume. It is for this reason, in large part, that I dread the day of widespread availability of access from a flight…
Would it be nice to land without a queue of e-mail to send or receive?
Yes.
Would it be nice to land "caught up" on anything that happened during a lengthy flight?
Yes.
Will I miss the hours of focus on some esoteric bit of payments consultation data or reports that have been recently created?
Quite.
But, I digress.
Payments, Software, Technology on March 2, 2010
- Payments Views from Glenbrook Partners – The Most Pressing Issues in e-Payments: An Open Forum at BAI
March 2, 2010 – All of the feedback/comments that Erin captured at the Payments Connect conference are intriguing…however, this brief statement on mobile continue to tickle the back of my brain:“Aaron Fine onbserved that if you are a bank, the opportunity to increase transaction volume via mobile payments is relatively modest. But if you are a non bank – carrier or Apple for instance – payments are incremental business, and an exciting opportunity.”
- TechCrunch – Facebook Details How It Tests Code, But Won’t Say How It Misdelivered Private Messages
March 2, 2010 – The entirety of the article is intriguing…but this quote is priceless:“To reiterate what I wrote last year, the word ‘private’ should not mean “this will remain hidden until we accidentally break something”.”
- Smallbiztechnology.com – A Search For Credit Card Solutions: Intuit? Paypal? Your Bank?
March 2, 2010 – This quote:“It all started when one of my clients wanted to pay me with a credit card. It is odd that I have been in business for 18 years and this is the first time that I have been paid in this way. It is doubly ironic in that I used to teach classes on eCommerce back in the early days of the Web and hadn’t ever gotten around to getting a merchant account, which is what you need to take credit card payments.”
emphasizes the fact that, frequently, the decision about what payment methods to accept is when the tender is presented…emphasizing the need for efficiency in boarding for merchant customers.
- Daring Fireball – iPhone’s Missing Feed Reader
March 2, 2010 – I agree that there is a lack of quality in the iPhone feed reading apps…I’ve been using Google Reader via safari on the mac…any other recommendations that integrate well with Reader? - Anton Chuvakin Blog – "Security Warrior" – The Myth of SIEM as “An Analyst-in-the-box” or How NOT to Pick a SIEM-II?
March 2, 2010 – “So, instead, I came up with 7 reasons why SIEM is NOT “an analyst in the box”:” So funny… - The PayPal Blog – PayPal’s Ed Eger on Reserves
March 2, 2010 – If you have been following the discussion in the online world regarding PayPal’s reserve policy, it is worth reading the official PayPal response. - Mobile Banking – P2P Analysis – Oz Shy
March 2, 2010 – With 6 plane flights in 7 days upcoming, I have printed a copy of this report and will consume on the plane…
Payments, Software, Technology – February 28, 2010
- Digital Money Forum – Developing new ideas
February 28, 2010 – “For those of us looking at the future of retail electronic payments, an increasing amount of our time is spent looking at the developing world, because it is in the developing world where some of the most innovative new payment systems are to be found.”I often find myself discussing this exact thing…I have some opinions about the “why” that I will share this week.
- Payments News – from Glenbrook Partners – Green Dot Files S-1 Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering
February 28, 2010 – although the Green Dot IPO activities are now common knowledge, it is interesting to read the S-1 itself. - Daring Fireball – Nexus One From an iPhone Developer’s Perspective
February 28, 2010 – UX wins…whether it be in hardware or in pushing new payment modalities or software solutions for acceptance. - TechCrunch – “We Are Working On An API:” This Is Why Embargoes Suck
February 28, 2010 – I just had to share something that made me laugh…heartily. - Seth's Blog – It's easier to teach compliance than initiative
February 28, 2010 – Although not about “compliance” as I typically use the term…there are some interesting comparisons between learning modalities and approaches to securing data. - CloudAve – What, exactly, is a “post-cloud” world?
February 28, 2010 – I’m not sure using the term “post-cloud” would resonate with many of the people I discuss technology (on a high level) with. However, the quote below, is CORE to understanding the “API Strategy” that you see many in the payments industry beginning to discuss and adopt.“The point is that the interesting thing about the “move to the cloud” isn’t about capex vs. opex, or any of the other silly “benefits” talks that you’ll hear all over the place. The interesting thing is in the web app developer/enterprise developer skill set converging in a way that we’ve never seen before. It opens up whole new fields of innovation (ie, both parties can learn a lot from each other). THAT is the “post-cloud” world.”
- Securosis Blog – Retro Buffoonery
February 28, 2010 – I often use the term “a holistic approach to security”…this statement is much simpler:“Vendors hope we’ll forget that it’s more than just a signature or a product that actually protects us against these attacks. We also must remember process and people complete the picture.”
- Securosis Blog – Answering Dan Geer: It’s Time to Reexamine Priorities and Revisit Paradigms
February 28, 2010 – This post is intriguing to me…like many bits of discussion in the security sector, it is extremely thought provoking. My thoughts, as of yet, are not yet well-formed enough to elucidate.
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