Opinion Piece: Security breaches are on the rise. Yet as security experts face ever more complex and challenging threats, is there a risk some of the basic components of IT security are being overlooked? As recent breaches have revealed, not only are many security experts guilty of focusing on the bright shiny new products while overlooking the more mundane evolutionary upgrades of traditional defences, but they are also failing to comply with the most robust global data security standard available, namely PCI DSS.