A new PCI certification program aims to improve PCI awareness, but how is the program designed to differ from what's already out there? PCI Council General Manager Bob Russo explains.
The PCI Security Standards Council has issued new guidelines on mobile payment acceptance security. What are the key recommendations? The council's Bob Russo and Troy Leach discuss the new guidance.
Visa's new end-to-end encryption service aims to eliminate payment card data at the merchant level. Eduardo Perez of Visa's Risk Group discusses the security value of this emerging solution.
Whether security data is coming from cloud-based operations, virtual systems, on-premise systems or third-party outsourced PCI services, Splunk Enterprise can be used to achieve PCI compliance and to improve an enterprise-level security posture. By monitoring all log data, services, processes and port activities,...
The PCI Security Standards Council aims to clarify points in existing data security standards that have spurred confusion. So what areas are proving the most puzzling? PCI's Bob Russo shares insights.
In the wake of recent merchant breaches, a new PCI training program aims to enhance point-of-sale security. Which payment card risks does this program address? PCI Council chair Bob Russo explains.
This book provides an easy-to-understand introduction to protecting payment card data and a reference framework you can use as you work with architects, operations, analysts and assessors. This book covers not just the PCI DSS mandates themselves but also ways in which you can employ data protection techniques to...
New advisories from Visa suggest that payments processor Global Payments Inc. may have been breached in June 2011 - nine months earlier than initially reported.
Payments processor First Data warns about an uptick in trolling - hackers sniffing networks for easy access to merchants' point-of-sale systems. What can banks do to help merchants prevent breaches?
If you handle critical data, you've got to be humble, advises Bob Carr, CEO of breached processor Heartland Payments System. "Anyone that thinks they're not going to be breached is being naïve."
Gartner fraud expert Avivah Litan shares ideas about how lessons learned from the Global Payments data breach can help security practitioners mitigate card-fraud risks and prevent future incidents.
What's the best strategy for communications after a data breach, like the one suffered by Global Payments Inc.? Bob Carr, CEO of Heartland Payment Systems, discusses what to say in the weeks following a breach.
With a court decision handed down in Texas, a lingering lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems and two acquiring banks, KeyBank and Heartland Bank, appears to finally have been put to rest.
Complying with PCI requirements is now a normal part of doing business in today's interconnected world.
This white paper discusses how the PCI requirements apply to an IBM i server, and describes how PowerTech software can help you meet compliance guidelines.
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Gartner Analyst Avivah Litan, one of the first fraud experts to report the Global Payments Inc. data breach, says the latest revelations raise more questions than answers about the incident's impact.
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