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On April 4, 2014

How to ensure continuous compliance? Here are some suggestions.

Here are some points  from an article related to establishing an IT control framework. However, this is perfectly applicable for ensuring continuous compliance in retail security as well.  Some sensible high-lev ...

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On March 21, 2014

Which version of PCI DSS do retailers need to comply with in 2014? Version 2.0 or 3.0?

The PCI Council officially released PCI DSS version 3.0 in January, 2014.  Many merchants are still working through their PCI Compliance audit that started in 2013 for the requirements of version 2.0.  Clearly, their Report on Compliance (ROC) will be based on providing evidentiary support requir ...

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On March 12, 2014

PCI DSS 3.0 New requirements – Maintaining an inventory of system components in scope

This is a requirement for sub-control 2.4.  Inventory of systems refer to all hardware and software, virtual or physical within the cardholder data environment (CDE). This essentially means a list of all the hardware and software used, their purpose in being in the CDE, what they are and why they ...

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On March 10, 2014

Incident Response Plan – How do you determine an incident?

An obvious discovery of any malicious finding is an incident and immediate actions should take place to arrest and minimize effects.  However, there are incidents that fall into grey areas.  Any actual incident has implications such as legal, compliance, and other regulatory components. A set of ...

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On February 28, 2014

Hackers have encroached all areas. Way beyond mobile and wireless…

Hackers are "Hacking all the things". We are starting to hear about environments like thermostats, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning using web interfaces and http custom protocols.  Those are big security issues. Next, over the last several months there have been numerous cases of hackers ta ...

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