The cardholder data breach is not a new thing. It is been a nightmare for every CIO in the world. Dancho Danchev's...
Dual Control or Segregation of Duties?
Many information security professionals, event at the senior level roles, are still getting the internal control...
The rat race of vulnerability management
Patch management is one among the major IT Security concerns most of the organizations are worried about. It is...
Global Payments breach.initial review
Security breaches are become a common thing these days. They hit the front page only when the size or importance of...
PCI DSS compliance and Password policy
Usernames and passwords is still the major method of authenticating users to the systems. It would be difficult to...
Cloud solutions & PCI DSS Compliance
Businesses are increasing its dependence on cloud computing solutions. PCI DSS compliance is often a concern for many...
How long can CISO’s avoid Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is gaining momentum in the business world. More and more business wants to increase their IT usage on...
How to be PCI compliant . small merchants
PCI DSS Compliance is a very hot topic these days. With the number of card data leakage incidents, every organization...
PCI Compliance hosting
In my earlier post about PCI Compliant Hosting, we have discussed about the PCI Compliance areas to be looked into...
Database Activity Monitoring
Who has unlimited access to your data? None other than the database administrators. We do trust them, don.t we? Yep,...
Burgan Bank achieves payment card industry Data Security Standard Compliance
Burgan Bank announced today that it has recently completed the Payment Card Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)...
RBS World Pay hacker gets suspended sentence
A Russian hacker received a five-year suspended sentence on Tuesday after pleading guilty to playing a key part in the...
More security needed for ATMs
RIYADH: Concerns have been raised over the security of automated teller machines (ATMs) after a group of men managed...
Who should be PCI Compliant
It is often asked if this organization should be PCI Compliant. Many conferences include a discussion around the topic...
PCI DSS Compliance Best Practices Seminar in Dubai
Payment Systems Consulting is pleased to announce it is teaming up with Onformonics, the leader in the Payment Card...
110,000 bank card numbers were stolen via a SQL injection attack
Hackers have broken into the website of the New York tour company CitySights NY and stolen about 110,000 bank card...
Heartland to pay Amex $3.6m for massive payment breach
In a recent development, Heartland Payment Systems will pay American Express $3.6m to settle claims related to the...
Outsourcing the payment card related activities
Many organizations outsource their work to third parties for meeting their business objectives. The objectives vary...
Analysing the file integrity requirement of the PCI DSS
I always wondered about the file integrity monitoring requirement of the PCI DSS standard. What is the purpose of this...
PCI DSS guideline on Wireless Network
The PCI Council published the guideline prepared by the PCI SSC Wireless Special Interest Group (SIG) Implementation...