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The ENTITY (a scary PCI monster)
If you're subject to PCI DSS you need to understand "The ENTITY". We aren't talking about a horror movie. Instead we are talking about something...
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Control Gap at Vancouver PCI Community Meeting
Control Gap is excited to announce that we will be exhibiting at this year’s @PCISecurityStandardsCouncil Community Meeting on September 17-19. Don’t...
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What's the minimum I need to do for PCI?
As we complete the 3rd hour of the meeting discussing PCI scope, the customer turns to me and asks, “So what’s the minimum that I need to do to pass...
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This Week’s [in]Security – Issue 115
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. This week: a quiet week for PCI, RDP MFA bypass, make SSNs public, AMCA (Quest, LabCorp, OPKO) breach, Data...
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NIST is Sunsetting Triple DES - so what will the Financial Industry do?
NIST recently published a document "Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths" which formalizes the sunset of Triple DES by...
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NIST Update to Format Preserving Encryption Standard affects PCI Use Cases
Last month NIST announced they were seeking feedback on a proposed updated guidance for FPE. More formally this is SP 800-38G rev 1 "Recommendation...
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PCI SPoC (PIN on COTS) - Grand Experiment in Mobile Payments
Big changes are coming to payment security in 2019. PCI is launching a grand experiment in payment security - Software PIN on COTS (SPoC) - a subset...
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PCI DSS v3.2.1 - What You Need to Know to Stay PCI Compliant
To accept credit cards in Canada, businesses need to be PCI compliant. Becoming PCI compliant can be difficult in the first place and keeping up with...
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If You Take Credit Cards By Phone or Mail - You Need to Read About Visa's October Mandate
PCI Rules Aren't the Only Ones You Need to Comply With Most organizations concerned with payment compliance are focused on the PCI Data Security...