Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) has made it back onto Visa's list of PCI DSS Validated Service Providers. The announcement comes almost six weeks after the credit card payment processor was taken off the list and four months since it announced its networks had been breached and credit card information stolen.
As I reviewed the testimony from the other week's hearing on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) in Washington, D.C., a nursery rhyme popped into my head. While people called to testify about PCI and its effectiveness managed to dodge that all of the breached entities of the last few years were...
The "security bar" has to be raised on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and it has to happen now.
This was the message last week from the head of a Congressional subcommittee that conducted a hearing on PCI DSS. And it's a message that is drawing mixed reactions from financial services...
Despite the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach and other noted compromises, Visa staunchly supports the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
This is the message from Adrian Phillips, Visa's Deputy Chief Enterprise Risk Officer, who in an exclusive interview hammers home the credit card...
The Heartland Payment Systems data breach has brought extra attention to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard - PCI DSS. How well embraced is the standard, and what happens to companies if they're found to not be PCI compliant?
In an exclusive interview, Tony Bradley, co-author of the book PCI...
Clearing my desk and my head this morning...
Interesting nuance in the Heartland Payment Systems breach this week. Did you read the article about Visa and the security update it's presenting to its network of processors? In one part of this presentation, Visa discusses myths and facts about PCI DSS compliance, and...
In the wake of the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach, credit card company Visa is on the road talking to its network of payment processors about current security threats and the merits of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) has been removed from Visa's list of compliant service providers, and banking institutions affected by the Heartland data breach have until May 19 to file their fraud claims with Visa.
This news emerged late last week from a public statement by Visa, as well as from a letter sent by...
The Heartland Payment Systems data breach has brought extra attention to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard - PCI DSS. How well embraced is the standard, and what happens to companies if they're found to not be PCI compliant?
In an exclusive interview, Tony Bradley, co-author of the book PCI...
Over the years, security and compliance experts at ReymannGroup have performed numerous compliance reviews and risk assessments. Through these engagements and other forums, we have engaged hundreds of executives in discussions about the need for a comprehensive and strategic approach to data security and compliance....
There's something new in the air that retailers, especially the directors of information technology (IT) operations at the store, are starting to research and implement called "application whitelisting". This technology is being presented as the panacea for Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance, and is being welcomed...
Many business activities require access to real production data, but there are equally many that do not. Data masking secures enterprise data by eliminating sensitive information, while maintaining data realism and integrity. Many Fortune 500 companies have already integrated data masking into their PCI DSS and GLBA...
Regulatory change is coming - fueled by the ever present news of breaches within the credit card payment networks degrading the faith in today's financial institutions. A new approach is needed to secure, make compliance easier, and enhance the operating efficiency for critical financial datacenters and those...
The Heartland Payment Systems data breach has been the information security story of the year. And it's shined a bright spotlight on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) - and the question "How does an organization attain and sustain PCI Compliance?"
In this panel webinar, part of the Emerging...
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is intended to help organizations proactively protect sensitive customer account data. The standard was developed by the founding payment brands of the PCI Security Standards Council, including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International,...
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