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Achieving PCI Compliance For: Privileged Password Management & Remote Vendor Access

whitepaper Though PCI compliance is not a government driven requirement such as Sarbanes Oxley and HIPAA, noncompliance under PCI can have a devastating impact on any enterprise that relies on credit card transactions.

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Is Your WLAN Putting Your PCI Compliance at Risk?

whitepaper PCI compliance is mandatory for all merchants that store, process or transmit credit card data through retail stores, mail order, telephone order and online sites. Retailers that are not in compliance are subject to fines or suspension of credit...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Citrix Solutions for Complying With PCI-DSS: Ensuring Protection of Web Applications and Privacy of Cardholder Information

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a global standard governed by the major credit card companies. PCI-DSS presents the framework for protecting sensitive cardholder and authentication data, providing financial benefits to...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Managed File Transfer and the PCI Data Security Standards

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) are intended for use by merchants, financial processors, point-of-sale vendors, and banks, credit unions and other financial institutions that transmit, process and/or store credit...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

PCI Compliance: The Importance of Securing Payment Information

whitepaper This effort resulted in the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), a multifaceted security standard that includes requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design, and other...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

PCI DSS Compliance: A Difficult But Necessary Journey

whitepaper This standard is a set of network security requirements agreed upon by five of the major credit card companies in an attempt to stem the growth of credit card fraud around the world and to give a common interpretation of what security is all about.

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

ID tech tightens up compliance

Comment More than 60 banks around the world reported fraudulent transactions based on the stolen credit card data. Organisations need to ensure such devices are included in the identity management systems they put in place - for example, by requiring...

Tags: identity management, data protection, compliance, printers

[18 Mar 2008]

Geography lessons for online retailers

Comment For instance, online retailers and payment processors use geolocation to detect possible credit card fraud by comparing the user's location with the billing address on the account or the shipping address provided, or identifying known IP addresses...

Tags: geolocation, sales, customer loyalty, online retail

[09 Jan 2008]

Locking down financial security

Comment In 2006, internet fraud reached £154.4m, accounting for 73 per cent of card-not-present fraud. That's up from £117m the previous year, when it accounted for just 65 per cent of card-not-present fraud.

Tags: security, phishing, authentication, banking

[24 Dec 2007]

Solutions for Complying with PCI-DSS

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), produced and governed by the major credit card companies, comprises directives to reduce fraud.Citrix Application FirewallTM, along with other Citrix solutions, provide compliance...

Tags: security applications, card, citrix, dss

[08 Nov 2007]

PCI DSS Made Easy: Addressing the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

whitepaper Major credit card companies are pushing hard to stop the financial fraud incidents that have affected numerous organizations and their consumers. Consequently, organizations that accept payment card transactions are duly bound to comply with PCI...

Tags: security management, comply, card, compliance

[06 Jul 2007]

IT and <strong>compliance</strong>: A risk management 'odd couple'

IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'

Comment For example, the industry-enforced PCI-DSS standard for credit card payment handlers specifies conditions such as the application and configuration of personal firewalls. Compliance can be a daunting word for IT managers.

Tags: paypal, risk management, risk

[02 Jul 2007]

Credit card companies forge security alliance

News Five major credit card companies have teamed up in the interest of creating better security. American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International announced on Thursday the creation of an organisation to...

Tags: credit card, security

[08 Sep 2006]

Achieving Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Compliance With Tripwire Change Audit Solutions

whitepaper The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) requires banks, insurance companies, brokerages, credit card companies and other financial businesses to establish safeguards to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of personal customer information and...

Tags: safeguards, section, card, establish

[20 Sep 2005]

Gartner: Don't believe the tech security myths

News This is an important one", he said, as loss of personal data such as credit card numbers "is happening on almost a weekly basis". On the proposition that regulatory compliance "equalled" security, he said the real threat is companies spend more on...

Tags: gartner

[25 Jul 2005]

Ecommerce sites face security crackdown

Ecommerce sites face security crackdown

News Non-compliance will mean e-tailers will be unable to process transactions with the credit card companies - cutting off their livelihood over night, or forcing them to involve customers in more convoluted processes such as sending cheques or making...

[20 Apr 2005]

Leader: Blunkett should rethink ID card "folly"

Leader The Information Commissioner today said he doesn't believe the current plans for the ID card scheme will be in compliance with the DPA and he says it is "unacceptable" that his office has to seek permission from the government to audit or...

[17 Nov 2004]

CRM: Don't forget about privacy

Comment Modern data mining allows CRM systems to make complex assessments of an individual's likely interest in a product or the chances they will default on their credit card. Yet some major corporations do take the privacy issue seriously because of...

Tags: privacy, olswang, crm

[13 Oct 2004]

Banking industry on target to hit <strong>compliance</strong> deadlines

Banking industry on target to hit compliance deadlines

News The survey of 60 managers at retail banks, insurance companies, credit card firms and investment banks was carried out by Finextra Research and sponsored by Computacenter and Sun Microsystems. Almost two-thirds of respondents in a survey of risk...

[15 Sep 2004]

Can IT save us from Big Brother?

Can IT save us from Big Brother?

News When a site seeks information that has not been cleared, such as a credit card number, a warning is displayed. Although that legislation was approved in 1996, the privacy provisions are only now beginning to take effect, with key compliance...

Tags: big brother, privacy, surveillance

[11 Apr 2003]

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