The second edition of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was released overnight and contains minor changes (PDF) to take virtualisation into account and increase security ...

The use of virtualization in information technology (IT) has a corroborative impact on infrastructure frameworks, processes and operations. As a result, organizations dealing with cardholder data have ...

If you work in a small or medium-sized business, you might have opened your mail recently and found a letter from the bank that handles your credit card processing, asking you to certify your ...

Every time a customer taps his or her credit card at checkout, it’s the retailer’s responsibility to process it and protect the cardholder’s data. But with so much data transmitted behind the scenes, ...

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) will start enforcing requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 under the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) beginning March 31, 2025. These changes will impact many ...

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard’s 4.0 requirements are designed to protect card information from theft or fraud. Here are some important controls that must be in place before April ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Version 3.0 of the PCI Data ...

Humans have always loved a paradox, from the simple piece of paper with ‘the other side is true’ and ‘the other side is false’ on either side; to quantum physics theory meaning that Schrödinger's cat ...