PCI commentators and recent surveys have again reinforced the importance of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, as well as highlighting the penalties and pitfalls of ignoring PCI DSS guidelines. Writing for Infosecurity Magazine, independent security analyst Mark Gillespie collates and analyses recent findings which support and promote PCI DDS.
Gillespie identified the current confusion [...]
PCI DSS
The importance of conforming to PCI DSS
Is PCI DSS Compliance effective? Not without Requirement 13
There has been widespread reporting this week of a recent fraud case where fully PCI-DSS Compliant businesses were victim to a huge and repeated breach which allowed the perpetrators to steal 130 million individual records.
Trustwave, a computer security firm, conducted its 2008 audit of Heartland on April 30 and deemed it compliant with Payment Card [...]
PCI – DSS Causing Backup Nightmares for Merchants
PCI DSS (Payment Card industry – Data Security Standard) is currently taxing the minds of merchants up and down the land. PCI – DSS is a recently introduced standard by the card suppliers to protect end user customers.
It’s requirements are far reaching – here is what your business must do:
Build and Maintain a Secure Network
Requirement [...]




