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PCI DSS
PCI DSS: Short for Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), PCI DSS is a standard that all organizations, including online retailers, must follow when storing, processing and transmitting their customer's credit card data. The Data Security Standard (DSS) was developed and the standard is maintained by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). To be PCI complaint companies must use a firewall between wireless network and their cardholder data environment, use the latest security and authentication such as WPA/WPA2 and also change default settings for wired privacy keys, and use a network intrusion detection system. (Source: Webopedia)
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An insightful study, packed full of useful, well-presented data on information security breaches covering a dataset of 855 confirmed security breaches accounting for a combined 174 million compromised records.
Complied with the collaboration of enforcement agencies from around the world, including the US Secret Service, Verizon’s 2012 report shows that many security breaches are the results of more than one threat action (malware, hacking, social, misuse, physical, er ... read more
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Virtualization separates applications, desktops, machines, networks, data and services from their physical constraints. Virtualization is an evolving concept, encompassing a broad range of technologies, tools, and methods, and can bring significant operational benefits to organisations that choose to leverage them. As with any evolving technology, however, the risks also continue to evolve and are often less understood than risks associated with more traditional technologies.
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Compliance of any sort tends to send CIOs shaking in their boots, and CFOs reaching for the corporate cheque book. PCI-DSS, the international payment card industry standard for security, was meant to create an environment in which customer data is kept private. And to the credit of the creators of PCI-DSS, the stated measures that must be taken are mostly common sense items that merchants and other co ... read more
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The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (abbreviated to PCI DSS or commonly, just PCI) is a set of 12 requirements designed to secure and protect customer payment data. These 12 requirements of PCI DSS compliance can be quite daunting for any merchant. These are listed below:
Build and Maintain a Secure NetworkRequ ... read more
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Gartner has found that almost a fifth of firms are not compliant with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS). The research specialist believes that the gap is hugely surprising considering the importance placed on PCI DSS compliance by tech firms.Lawrence Pingree, research director at Gartner, said that it was clear from the survey results that security solution providers n ... read more
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This white paper discusses the background of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), its commercial and technological implications. It includes a case study of implementing the PCI DSS Standard and how this experience could help you to reduce lead times, lower audit costs and reduce infrastructure expenditure for your own business’s PCI compliance programme.
Every merchant that processes card payments and retains card payment details must ... read more
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Too many businesses are putting consumers' confidential information at risk because they are struggling to comply with the Payment Card Industry's (PCI) data security standards. A recent audit conducted by Verizon showed that just 21 per cent of 100 organisations met the necessary PCI criteria. Placeholder0According to the report, companies fell particularly short on pro ... read more
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Members of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Virtualization Special Interest Group - which includes Cisco, VMware and Trend Micro - have published a new reference guide for businesses that wish to ensure their cloud-based architecture complies with PCI DSS 2.0.The guidance is based on new regulations that cloud computing service providers are expected to adhere to in the new year and could help formalise a global approach toward things like cloud security - a pro ... read more
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The data security debate rumbles on as 71 per cent of merchants claim to have stored unencrypted card data in 2011.
The figures, published following a survey by merchant data leader SecurityMetrics, highlight the need for firms to encrypt their data and continue the fight against hackers and thieves.
In his blog, SPVA spokesperson Steven Hughes wrote: “These are troubling numbers, especially for an industry marked by ever-changing technology and increasingly sophisticated hack ... read more
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Even as trends of changes in IT security spending emerged from a recent Gartner Survey on budget outlays for 2012, it bust the story on PCI-conforming businesses, revealing close to 18% are non-compliant in real time.
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard 2011 (PCI DSS) is a hot-topic for enterprises as their PCI-compliance status is a coveted r ... read more
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PCI DSS is about preventing card payment information held by merchants, or other third parties, from being used fraudulently and all the consequential financial and reputational losses associated with this.
In this White Paper, you will learn:
How to streamline the PCI process
How to choose the right partners for PCI compliance
The roles of Qualified Security Assessors (Q ... read more
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The lack of financial data encryption in the retail industry may force the security industry to refocus its efforts. According to SecurityMetrics, 71 per cent of sellers stored their customers' credit card and debit card information in an unencrypted format this year.This represents an eight per cent increase on 2010 figures - an alarming rise considering the lack of encryption is in direct contravention of the Payment Card Industry read more
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An alliance of top software developers - including Canonical, Cisco, IBM, Intel, NetApp, Red Hat and SUSE - has been created to champion the development of open source virtualization platforms. The oVirt project has the core aim of creating an openly governed virtualization stack that would allow for much better integration and the implementation of more advanced management techniques.Jean Staten Healy, director of Linux at IBM, said: "We are excited to be a part of the oVirt project." H ... read more
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Public perception of how safe credit card and identity information is when placing an order over the Internet has swung from outright suspicion and fear, to acceptance. Internet transactions are at an all-time high especially during the holiday season, and the relatively new phenomenon of “Cyber Monday” has catapulted Internet commerce to the point where merchants now depend heavily on their online volume to meet their numbers. But with high profile attacks against credit card issuers and m ... read more
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The PCI Security Standards Council’s recent virtualization guidance document has indicated that merchants who choose cloud providers for payment processing, rather than the cloud providers themselves, maintain responsibility for safeguarding information and complying with PCI DSS.
While it is possible for a cloud provider to offer a PCI com ... read more
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With an explosion of data breaches in recent years, the protection of sensitive information has become a top priority for security organisations worldwide. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, more than 535 million records have been breached in 2,651 incidents made public since 2005.1 Attackers have targeted virtually the entire gamut of sensitive content, from personal financial account data to intellectual property and high-value information of concern to the most senior levels ... read more
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Ultimately there is no escape from PCI. Whether you are a sophisticated multinational retailer or a small business that accepts card payments – online or offline, it is widely expected that much more rigorous enforcement will be commonplace from 2012.
Technologies and strategies for dealing with PCI are still catching up, although technology firms ar ... read more
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With the growing emphasis on the need to protect sensitive data, encryption has become a focus of interest for organisations worldwide. Yet data encryption has long had its challenges in deployment. If you are responsible for the protection of sensitive information in a Linux environment and often find yourself wondering which way to turn when it comes to simple transparent and unified data encryption, this paper will interest you. read more
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Every merchant that processes card payments and retains card payment details must adopt the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Failure to do so can result in merchants being subject to substantial fines, higher transaction costs or ultimately the suspension of banking facilities.
A single retailer, or merchant, can process millions payment card transactions each year. If an unauthorised route is found into that merchant’s sy ... read more
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