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Zombies Invade the 2011 RSA Conference at the Petcha Kutcha Event

by ~Previous Contributers

There is an event each year at the RSA Conference in San Francisco called Petcha Kutcha.  I had heard good things about it and it sounded a lot like Ignite so I decided to check it out.  According to Wikipedia this is what a Petcha Kutcha is: Pecha Kucha Night was devised in February 2003[2] by [...]

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PCI DSS Picks Up a Missouri Accent with V2’s 11.5b: “Show Me”

by Cindy Valladares

We all know what PCI 11.5 says, right? At Tripwire it’s almost a corporate anthem: “Deploy file-integrity monitoring tools to alert personnel to unauthorized modification of critical system files, configuration files, or content files…” Ensuring the integrity of files and configurations is essential to IT security in general, and indispensable in protecting the cardholder information [...]

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The implications of Visa’s new Technology Innovation Program (TIP)

by Cindy Valladares

A few days ago, Visa announced a new Technology Innovation Program (TIP) that will allow merchants outside of the United States to be exempt from having to validate for PCI DSS. This program will go into effect on March 31, 2011. The TIP program allows non-US merchants to discontinue their compliance with PCI DSS if [...]

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The True Cost of Compliance

by Cindy Valladares

We often hear from customers and prospects that compliance is expensive and cumbersome, yet it allows them to rally for a piece of the IT security budget. Up to this point, however, there was no data on what the cost of compliance was.

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New PCI Data Security Standard version 2.0

by Cindy Valladares

Last week the Payment Card Industry Security Standard Council released version 2.0 of the PCI Data Security Standard. I’ve covered my initial impressions of the changes on a previous blogpost. To get a deeper understanding on how the changes may affect your organization, I’ll be holding a webcast to discuss: Timelines for PCI DSS v2.0 [...]

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PCI Hug It Out: The Hug

by ~Previous Contributers

You finally get to see the video for the PCI Hug It Out Podcast series.

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