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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.
[13 May 2008]
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...
[13 May 2008]
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...
[13 May 2008]
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...
[13 May 2008]
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...
[13 May 2008]
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.
[06 May 2008]
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...
[18 Mar 2008]
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...
[09 Jan 2008]
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.
[24 Dec 2007]
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...
[08 Nov 2007]
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...
[06 Jul 2007]
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.
[02 Jul 2007]
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...
[08 Sep 2006]
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...
[20 Sep 2005]
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...
[25 Jul 2005]
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 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]
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...
[13 Oct 2004]
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]
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...
[11 Apr 2003]
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