What Is The Difference Between Masking And Truncation In PCI Compliance?
Masking and truncation of cardholder data may seem the same on the surface (eg. 423456XXXXXX7890); however, each implies different functionality.
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What Is Cardholder Data In PCI Compliance?
Cardholder data, aka CHD, comes from credit, debit, and prepaid cards bearing the logo of one of the PCI founding card brands. CHD includes the...
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Call Centers and PCI Compliance: Things You Need to Know
Call centers can be challenging places. They range from small and simple to large and complex. For many businesses they are a place where new...
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4 FAQs The PCI Security Standards Council Renamed in 2016
Anyone who relies on the PCI FAQ site for guidance may have noticed some changes in the last few months. In fact if you bookmarked some of the links...
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PCI Announces NESA - A Stepping Stone To P2PE
Earlier this month the PCI Security Standards Council published a new document as part of the Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) program. This initial...
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PCI Compliance Footprints: 7 Ways To Simplify Compliance, Reduce Risk And Save Money
While you may have heard of carbon footprints and ecological footprints, you might not be aware that there is such thing as a PCI Compliance...
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3 Risks of Ignoring PCI Compliance
With more than 510 million records containing sensitive information breached since January 2005, statistics indicate that cardholder data breaches...
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What's changed in PA-DSS 3.2? Impacts to Vendors, Implementers, and Operators.
Recently, Control Gap posted an article performing a detailed analysis of the recent changes in the DSS due to 3.2. We do this because the high-level...
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PCI DSS: Guide to Effective Daily Log Monitoring
Despite the widespread adoption of logging as part of operational security practices, organizations have continued to be challenged in harnessing the...