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...
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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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).
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...
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.
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...
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).
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