Credit and debit cards are everywhere. I use mine daily, and I suspect many functioning adults in the U.S. and beyond do as well. For me, convenience is a major factor in their use - instead of carrying around wads of cash, I can carry a single piece of plastic and use it to accomplish the same goal -- buy things. ...
It's been an interesting year for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
In the middle of it all is a debate among payment card companies, banking institutions, merchants, industry groups and even congressional leaders, questioning the merit of the standard and all hinting at the same open question: What...
Leveraging Asset-Based Configuration and Vulnerability Analysis with Real-Time Event Management
It is crucial to monitor for compliance in a manner as close to real time as possible to ensure the organization does not drift out of compliance over time. The greater the gap between monitoring cycles, the more likely...
Most organizations spend 30-50% more on compliance than they should 1. No matter the industry, with regulations such as GLBA, PCI, FISMA, SOX, and other regulations and mandates, it seems nobody is immune to scrutiny - but why spend so much more than what is necessary? In order to reduce the burden of an IT audit,...
The Heartland Payment Systems and Network Solutions data breaches have thrust the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) into the spotlight, raising the question: Does PCI compliance help in the fight against fraud?
David Taylor, founder of PCI Knowledge Base, recently administered new research on...
Interview with David Taylor, Founder of PCI Knowledge Base
The Heartland Payment Systems and Network Solutions data breaches have thrust the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) into the spotlight, raising the question: Does PCI compliance help in the fight against fraud?
David Taylor, founder...
As TJX, Hannaford and Heartland have taught us, incident response isn't just about reacting to your own institution's security breaches - it's about what happens when your card processors, merchants and vendors are compromised.
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How to immediately respond to a payment...
The recent data breach at Internet domain administrator and host Network Solutions compromised more than 573,000 credit and debit cardholders and begs the question: What more can be done to secure such systems? The incident also raises new questions about the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI).
Each time we see a major data breach related to payment card data, the breached entity says 'Gee, well we were told we were PCI compliant - how could this happen?'
A data breach at Internet domain administrator and host Network Solutions has compromised personal and financial data for more than 573,000 credit and debit cardholders. To add more pain to the breach, Network Solutions says it was PCI compliant at the time of the breach.
Whether you are working towards your first or next PCI DSS audit, you know that compliance isn't scored as a one or a zero - it's measured on a sliding scale. You've successfully argued for adoption of various security technologies to protect cardholder data, including encryption and firewalls, and have come to...
Should individual states mandate that businesses comply with the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)?
The answer is "yes," according to Nevada, which has passed a new law that, as of next year, requires businesses to comply with PCI when collecting or transmitting payment card...
In the first step of its move toward end-to-end encryption, Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) last week completed the first phase of its pilot project.
Heartland, the sixth biggest payments processor, earlier this year announced that it was hit with a data breach, wherein credit card numbers and debit card...
Merchant banks, card processors and payment gateways are all seeking ways to simplify and reduce the scope of the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance by shrinking the footprint where cardholder data is located throughout their organization. By reducing the scope, these organizations can...
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.
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