You are here: silicon.com > Tags

1218 stories on

security standards

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Ensuring Compliance With PCI Data Security Standards: Employing CoreGuard to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards

whitepaper Visa's CISP and MasterCard's Site Data Protection standards merged into the PCI standard in December 2004. Compliance with PCI (Payment Card Industry) data security requirements is a key initiative for any company that processes credit cards.

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Reap the Benefits of PCI Compliance: Why Payment Card Security Should Be a Retailer's Top Priority

whitepaper Despite five years and two deadlines, just 20 percent of level one merchants (6 million+ annual transactions) and an estimated 2 percent of lower-volume merchants have fully complied with cardholder data security standards issued by the card...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Security Solutions Provider Projects a 20 Percent Revenue Increase From New Offerings

whitepaper Iniflux added Microsoft security products to its offerings because the products met its high standards and because of the strong support Microsoft provides its partners. The firm projects that in the first year of sales, Microsoft security products...

Tags: network security

[13 May 2008]

PCI Compliance: A Technology Overview

whitepaper Where other information security standards, such as HIPAA and GLBA, shy away from spelling out required measures and procedures, the PCI standard is straightforward. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard has received widespread...

Tags: security standards

[12 May 2008]

Using the PCI Data Security Standard

whitepaper Visa and MasterCard issued revised security standards applying to all "Components" of a network for companies engaging in financial transactions. These security standards are necessary for all companies needing practical solution to assess and...

Tags: security standards

[11 May 2008]

An Automated Framework for Validating Firewall Policy Enforcement

whitepaper The implementation of network security devices such as firewalls and IDSs are constantly being improved to accommodate higher security and performance standards. Using reliable and yet practical techniques for testing the functionality of firewall...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Policy Segmentation for Intelligent Firewall Testing

whitepaper Firewall development and implementation are constantly being improved to accommodate higher security and performance standards. Using reliable yet practical techniques for testing new packet filtering algorithms and firewall design implementations...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Nortel Secure Network Access and Microsoft Network Access Protection Integration

whitepaper However, confusion around industry standards, the multitude of NAC vendors and the complexity of the solutions has led to a relatively slow industry-wide NAC adoption rate. With the ever-increasing need for enterprises to provide endpoint security...

Tags: security management

[11 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

[09 May 2008]

Encrypting Recordings Is Not Enough: Steps to Protect Your Most Sensitive Data

whitepaper As fraud and identity theft becomes more prevalent, businesses that record calls must adhere to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards to prevent recorded transactions from becoming a target.

Tags: security standards

[09 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment In these places it has been repackaged as a "commercial" system, providing the standards that software developers need. Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Video: How to manage tech...

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

MoD fights data losses with encryption

News A spokesman for the MoD said: "There was a feeling there was a need for stringent security standards and the reason we chose BeCrypt was its ability to deliver full hard drive encryption quickly. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to protect 20,000...

Tags: security, army, mod

[08 May 2008]

Pragma Systems: Using SSH for PCI Compliance

whitepaper Payment Card Industry (PCI) deadline for locking down networks and customer data, it's clear many companies - and more than half of smaller organizations - still fall short of prescribed security standards.

Tags: security standards

[08 May 2008]

Meeting the 12 Rules of the PCI Data Security Standards: Employing CoreGuard to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards

whitepaper Visa's CISP and MasterCard's Site Data Protection standards merged into the PCI standard in December 2004. Compliance with PCI (Payment Card Industry) data security requirements is a key initiative for any company that processes credit cards.

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Achieving and Maintaining Compliance With the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards

whitepaper This was due primarily to uncertain penalties and disparate standards from the competing associations. During the past several years, credit card associations have begun to make a concerted effort to raise the level of security within the industry.

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Achieving Policy, Regulatory and Standards Compliance Through Implementing an ISO/IEC 27000 Series: Information Security Management System

whitepaper This paper has been prepared to provide those organizations wishing to demonstrate their compliance with various policy, legal, regulatory and other chosen standards with an understanding of how that may be accomplished through the implementation...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Encryption Key Management, Key Rotation and the PCI Data Security Standard

whitepaper Enterprise Information Protection The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards are a multi-faceted approach to the protection of cardholder data. This alignment in standards provided an industry-wide framework that complemented each...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Meeting and Exceeding PCI 1.1 Compliance Today

whitepaper Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diner's Club, Discover, and JCB collaborated to create a new set of standards based on CISP (Cardholder Information Security Policy), and known as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI).

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Practical Implementation of an ISO 17799- Compliant Information Security Management System Using a Novel ASD Method

whitepaper The ASD framework supports auditing against the organization's own baseline, which might not be compliant with existing standards and industry-defined best practices. This paper discusses the practical implementation of the Agile Security...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard

whitepaper This paper describes the 12 Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) requirements. These PCI DSS requirements are organized in 6 logically related groups, which are "Control objectives.

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Site Map    


Quick Sitemap Links: