E-Guide: PCI DSS Compliance Overview and Best Practices: Change Management, Compliance Audits, Compliance Best Practices, Credit Cards, Data Security, Identity Theft, Information Security, Network Security, Payment Card Industry, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance, Risk Assessment

E-Guide: PCI DSS Compliance Overview and Best Practices

sponsored by SearchCompliance.com

Posted:	08 Oct 2008
Published:	08 Oct 2008
Format:	PDF
Length:	26 Page(s)
Type:	White Paper
Language:	English

ABSTRACT:

This SearchCIO.com and SearchSecurity.com E-guide offers an explanation of the requirements of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and best practices for ensuring compliance with it.

Any company that accepts credit cards for its business is subject to the PCI DSS. Yet an estimated 60% of merchants using credit cards aren't PCI compliant. Though PCI is an industry standard- not a government regulation-it can still be enforced with equal weight as a regulation by the credit card industry. A credit card company can cut a business off at the knees for noncompliance. A business can be fined, or worse-cut off completely from being able to process credit cards.

Authors

Linda Tucci
Senior News Writer , SearchCIO.com

Joel Dubin
SearchCIO.com
Joel Dubin, CISSP, is an independent computer security consultant. He is a Microsoft MVP specializing in Web and application security, and is the author of The Little Black Book of Computer Security, available from Amazon.com. He has a regular radio show on computer security on WIIT in Chicago and runs The IT Security Guy blog at www.theitsecurityguy.com.

Robert Westervelt
News Editor , SearchSecurity.com

Diana Kelley
SearchSecurity.com
Diana Kelley is a partner with Amherst, N.H.-based consulting firm SecurityCurve. She formerly served as vice president and service director with research firm Burton Group. She has extensive experience creating secure network architectures and business solutions for large corporations and delivering strategic, competitive knowledge to security software vendors.

Stephen Cobb
SearchSecurity.com
Stephen Cobb has nearly three decades of experience in computer audit, security, and data privacy. He authored a comprehensive manual of personal computer security in 1992 and has been a CISSP since 1996. One of the first analysts to predict that privacy concerns would become a leading driver of enterprise security, Stephen published a privacy handbook for businesses in 2002. A co-founder of two successful security startups, he helped develop ground-breaking network security technology acquired by Symantec in 2004. When he is not busy advising clients or conducting seminars, Stephen is an adjunct professor of Information Assurance at Norwich University, Vermont, where he helped create the curriculum for the award-winning Master of Science in Information Assurance degree.

Michael Cobb
Founder, Managing Director , Cobweb Applications Ltd.
Michael Cobb, CISSP-ISSAP is the founder and managing director of Cobweb Applications Ltd., a consultancy that offers IT training and support in data security and analysis. He co-authored the book IIS Security and has written numerous technical articles for leading IT publications. Mike is the guest instructor for several SearchSecurity.com Security Schools and, as a SearchSecurity.com site expert, answers user questions on application security and platform security.

Shamus McGillicuddy
News Writer , SearchCIO.com

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