PCI DSS
Why Visa Is Upset
September 13, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
Visa’s beef with my post is the implied connotation by using the term ‘Chip and PIN’ that a PIN would be required. All I was trying to do was to provide an easily Google-able term for people interested in EMV. Such a complaint from Visa is laughable if it were not so sad...
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Card Brand Merchant Level Tables
September 08, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
Sometimes you can negotiate with your processor or acquiring bank to get your multiple legal entities treated as a single entity and do one compliance filing. The key is that you need to negotiate this change before you start your PCI compliance efforts, not after the fact...
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Kicked Out of the PCI DSS Club
August 31, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
A Qualified Security Assessor Company (QSAC) has finally had their status revoked by the PCI SSC. Based on the FAQ, it seems that CSO was not able to provide documentation that supported their conclusions regarding assessment opinions in their ROC's and ROV's they had issued...
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A Carrot for Chip and PIN
August 25, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
EMV and contactless technologies do not entirely solve the fraud problem. While they minimize fraud in the case of card present transactions, they do not even address fraud in card not present transactions. And it is in card not present transactions where fraud is most prevalent...
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PCI Compliance and Tokenization
August 12, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
Tokenization does not imply encryption. However, encryption may be used for tokenization as can one-way hashing. When encryption is used as a way to tokenize sensitive information, the system receiving the token never has the capability to decrypt the token...
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Mobile Payment Application PA-DSS Cert Clarification
August 02, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
The PCI SSC has stated in this latest clarification that Category 1 and 2 applications and devices can continue through the certification process. These mobile applications have been explicitly called out even though they have been part of the certification process in the past...
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PCI Compliance Scam? You Tell Me...
July 25, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
These sorts of actions by organizations just add fuel to the fire for critics to use as another argument as to why the PCI compliance programs are pointless and organizations should not bother with complying with any of the PCI standards...
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Some Opinions On PCI Self-Assessment Questionnaires
July 12, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
Since there are multiple ways to conduct a transaction, no single SAQ will cover all of these transaction methods. And since an organization is only supposed to fill out and submit one SAQ to their acquiring bank, the question becomes, which SAQ should the organization use?
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PCI SSC Nixes Certification for Mobile Payments Apps
June 30, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
"Until such time that it has completed a comprehensive examination of the mobile communications device and payment application landscape, the Council will not approve mobile payment applications used by merchants to accept and process payment as validated PA-DSS applications..."
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PCI SSC Releases Virtualization Guidelines
June 25, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
If I had to take the PCI SSC to task, I would argue that cloud computing does not have anything to do with virtualization. Yes, a lot of cloud computing solution providers are using virtualized systems to provide their services, but not every cloud provider uses virtualization...
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PCI DSS in the Cloud... From the PCI Council
June 23, 2011 Added by:Anton Chuvakin
The long-awaited PCI Council guidance on virtualization has been released. This guidance does not focus on cloud computing, but contains more than a few mentions, all of them pretty generic. Here are some of the highlights and my thoughts on them...
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Thoughts on Trustwave's 2011 Global Security Report
June 22, 2011 Added by:Robb Reck
We bring in these third party vendors because we trust that they have all the experience and knowledge with a given security product. But they are missing a critical piece: Experience with our systems. No technology solution is complete and ideal for every environment out of the box...
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VoIP and PCI Compliance
June 15, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
When you start talking to security people about VoIP security, their knee-jerk response is to tell you that VoIP is secured by the corporate firewall. However, given that the VoIP protocols are stateless, even being behind a firewall really does not provide any protection...
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Onsite Personnel "Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges" for PCI
May 30, 2011 Added by:Joe Schorr
To truly improve their security posture, companies should create (and enforce) a mandatory ID Badge policy for visitors and employees. An effective policy coupled with good security awareness training will go a long way to closing up this particular gap in PCI-DSS 2.0...
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E2E Encryption and Doctored Credit Card Terminals
May 26, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
End-to-end encryption just moves the attack points, in this case out to the terminal at the merchant’s location. Worse yet, it also makes security of the merchant’s endpoint even more difficult than it already is because the techniques used in doctoring terminals can easily go unnoticed...
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Mobile Network Operators Lack PCI DSS Compliance
May 25, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“The survey shows that there is clearly room for improvement by the mobile operator community in addressing PCI DSS compliance, and it is critical that operators not yet compliant take appropriate measures to ensure the security of their customer’s sensitive cardholder data..."
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