Blog Posts Tagged with "PCI DSS"
Using Least Privilege to Effectively Meet PCI DSS Compliance
April 25, 2013 Added by:Andrew Avanessian
PCI DSS Requirement guidelines certainly reinforce how compliance has hardened from suggestive or advisory directives to true mandates with hefty fines and strict consequences for those failing to take heed.
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Conducting Secure Transactions On-the-go with VPNs
March 20, 2013 Added by:Patrick Oliver Graf
The safeguarding of private customer information has become a top priority for many organizations, thanks in no small part to government regulation and industry oversight, as we move toward an increasingly digital world.
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How to comply with PCI DSS 6.3
March 09, 2013 Added by:Rohit Sethi
If you process, transmit or store credit card data in your software then you’re likely subject to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). One of the most onerous sections of the PCI DSS is requirement 6: Develop and maintain secure systems and applications.
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Why You Shouldn’t Use the OWASP Top 10 as a List of Software Security Requirements
February 21, 2013 Added by:Rohit Sethi
On February 15, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) came out with its 2013 list of candidates for the Top 10 web application security flaws. The challenge is that while the Top 10 details security flaws, these flaws don’t map cleanly to requirements.
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Pre-Authorization Data – The Card Brands Weigh In
January 28, 2013 Added by:PCI Guru
Acquiring banks, for the most part, cannot answer basic questions about the PCI DSS, so we are supposed to believe that they are experts on retention of pre-authorization data based on a company’s vertical market and region? Talk about passing the buck...
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The Barnes and Noble Breach Take Aways
December 05, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
Put video monitoring on all your POS locations. This does not stop such a swap from occurring, but it does at least record such an event if it does occur. This is particularly important in situations where the customer also acts as cashier as with any self checkout situation...
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The Amazon Cloud And PCI Compliance
November 07, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
The first part of the mythology revolves around what PCI compliant services Amazon Web Services (AWS) is actually providing. According to AWS’s Attestation Of Compliance, AWS is a Hosting Provider for Web and Hardware. The AOC calls out that the following services have been assessed PCI compliant...
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Skimming, Identity Theft and How Online Business Defends Against Cybercrime
October 25, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Over the past 5 years a scam known as electronic funds transfers at the point of sale (EFTPOS) or skimming has been prevalent. Consumers commonly swipe both credit and debit cards through the in-store machines to pay for goods and services and hackers have been adept at coming up with ways to skim those cards...
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Third Party Service Providers and PCI Compliance
September 25, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
If a third party is providing your organization a service that has access to your cardholder data environment (CDE) or the third party could come into contact you’re your cardholder data (CHD), then that third party must ensure that the service complies with all relevant PCI requirements...
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Banks Should Promote EMV
September 04, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
“EMV transactions require an authentic card validated either online by the issuer using a dynamic cryptogram or offline with the terminal... EMV transactions also create unique transaction data, so that any captured data cannot be used to execute new transactions...”
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Pre-Authorization Data: The Definitive Answer
September 03, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
Just to be clear, I have never argued that pre-authorization data was not to be secured with the same diligence as post-authorization data. I just could not find anything in the PCI DSS that explicitly called out the coverage of pre-authorization data.
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Compliance is Not Always a Four-Letter Word
August 22, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
This typical reaction I get in the US is many organizations see compliance as a “tax” and try to get away with doing the bare minimum. How do you and your organizations view compliance? Do you see it as a four-letter word, a nuisance, or as a step along the path to more effective security?
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PA-DSS Validation Clarification
August 09, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
The PA-DSS has a procedure that the PA-QSA can follow to determine that version changes have not affected cardholder data processing and the application’s PA-DSS validation. Without that validation, as a QSA, our hands are tied and we must conduct a full assessment of the application under the PCI DSS...
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Small Tech Firms Pursue Level 1 Service Provider PCI Compliance
July 01, 2012 Added by:Stacey Holleran
Small technology companies are finding themselves in a unique business situation as prospective clients increasingly request software applications and hosting solutions that can accommodate secure mobile payment transactions, bringing these technology companies to the forefront as “merchant service providers”...
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Call Centers and PCI Compliance
June 28, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
In a call center environment where operators are taking orders over the phone and accepting credit/debit cards for payment, until the card transaction is either approved or declined, we are talking pre-authorization data. Only cardholder data after authorization or decline is covered by the PCI DSS...
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More on PCI Scoping
June 22, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
“At least annually and prior to the annual assessment, the assessed entity should confirm the accuracy of their PCI DSS scope by identifying all locations and flows of cardholder data and ensuring they are included in the PCI DSS scope"...
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