Author: Kelvin O. Medina

Mr. Kelvin O. Medina is currently a Principal Security Consultant for Trustwave. As part of a global security team, Mr. Medina leads clients’ engagements for small businesses to Fortune Global 500 organizations in areas such as web penetration testing, point-to-point encryption, forensic analysis in alignment with PCI, PA-DSS, P2PE, PIN Security among others. Mr. Medina is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and holds a Master of Science from Johns Hopkins University. In his free time he enjoys going to the beach and reading.

From the Fall 2018 Issue

40% Of Breaches are Related to Credit Card Data: Is Payment Software Secure?

Author(s):

Kelvin O. Medina, Principal Security Consultant, Trustwave

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Forty percent of the data breaches for 2017 were reported as involving credit card data, according to the 2018 Trustwave Global Security Report.1 The data breaches analyzed used attacks such as phishing/social engineering, malicious insiders, and misconfigurations. This is illustrated below in Figure 1: Methods of Compromise2. Those numbers likely do not include hundreds of … Read more

From the Winter 2015 Issue

Your biggest cyber threat? Naïve end-users

Author(s):

Kelvin O. Medina, Principal Security Consultant, Trustwave

If your end-users lack awareness, your sensitive data will be at risk  Background Approximately 50 percent of all security breaches within the Federal Government are caused by a lack of user compliance, according to a report released last year by MeriTalk and developed in collaboration with Akamai Technologies, Inc.1 This illustrates that even though security … Read more