Guest post by Ashley Halsey If you have a website where you sell products or services, you will need to understand PCI compliance to avoid hefty fines for non-compliance. In this article, we will take a look at what PCI compliance is and why you … Read more
You’ve just been informed that your small business needs a firewall for PCI compliance. If you have no idea what that is and why your small business would even need a PCI-compliant firewall, then you’ve come to the right place. What is a PCI-Compliant Firewall? … Read more
A few weeks ago I was talking with one of my coworkers about the whole security vs compliance conversation. Up until then, I held the premise that compliance does little for security. In retort to my statement he asked the rhetorical question, “Where would these … Read more
The PCI DSS self-assessment questionnaire can be challenging for non-technical people, especially when you don’t understand the different terms floating around inside it. “Qualified Integrator and Reseller” is one of those terms that is known to throw merchants for a loop. The PCI DSS question … Read more
Excerpted from the ControlScan white paper, “Terminal Encryption for Security and PCI Compliance.” When the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) released the first version of the PCI Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) standard in 2011, its goal was to help merchants obtain a path to compliance that … Read more
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has 12 primary requirements, but within those it has a multitude of sub-requirements. While many of these are straightforward there are several that can leave even the technologically savvy person perplexed. Secure software application development is … Read more