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It’s official, I was selected as Payment Security Professional of the Year by the Society of Payment Security Professionals! The Society has gained a ton of momentum in the industry and launched their two excellent certifications, the Certified Payment-card Industry Security Manager (CPISM), and Certified Payment-card Industry Auditor (CPISA). If you are looking to get into this industry, or work for a company subject to PCI compliance and have responsibility for PCI, you should have these certifications. This training is better than the training that we receive as QSAs for a few reasons, but mainly because it covers a much wider base than just PCI-DSS. Anyone that has heard me speak about the negatives associated with a breach and/or non-compliance ...

Anton Chuvakin has assembled three fantastic roundup posts that pull both news articles and prominent bloggers opinions together for a couple of hours worth of reading (if you hit everything). Check them out: On Heartland I On Heartland II On Heartland III Possibly Related Posts: PCI DSS 4.0 Released plus BOOK DETAILS! PCI Council Loses $600K in Revenue, PO Population on the Decline Why PCI DSS 4.0 Needs to be a Complete Rewrite Equifax is only half the problem, your SSN needs a redesign! Orfei Steps Down

Evan Schuman of StorefrontBacktalk has a pretty shocking article today. Apparently, the Heartland malware hid in the unallocated file space. Right on the heels of my last blog post too. Nuts. Our forensic examiners at VeriSign look for this type of malware during every investigation because it is not a new trick. It surprises me that it was almost missed. Even still, I stand by my original premise which is that the standard (properly implemented) would prevent this. In order to get the malware on there, a software flaw or credential had to be exploited. Both of those vulnerabilities are addressed by PCI-DSS. What is more troubling is the same noise that came out after the Hannaford breach last year. ...

We’ve got another one in the news. Heartland Payment Systems recently reported a breach that may have affected up to 100 million cards. That’s a lot. Heartland joins another elite group of companies that suffered a breach, but was also validated as compliant by a QSA. I want to make something very clear in this next paragraph, but before I do, none of the comments here should be tied directly to any incident that has been in the news. We keep our customer lists private unless we get permission to use one as a reference. There is a big misnomer out there that needs to be cleared up. I’ve even written about it before in this blog. In our investigations ...

James DeLuccia IV noticed that Discover has officially matched their merchant levels to Visa (sorta). While this is a big step for Discover, I think most will find that they become Level 1 merchants of Visa before they become Level 1 merchants of Discover. There are exceptions. Some merchants are exclusively Discover. Those merchants will have to double check their levels (if Discover has not already told them they are a Level 1) to see if they have new compliance requirements. Possibly Related Posts: PCI DSS 4.0 Released plus BOOK DETAILS! PCI Council Loses $600K in Revenue, PO Population on the Decline Why PCI DSS 4.0 Needs to be a Complete Rewrite Equifax is only half the problem, your SSN ...

Greetings all! Join me for a Free Compliance Webcast put on by BrightTALK! I’m one of the featured speakers and will be discussing “Beating PCI in 2009!” You can review the agenda and register here: http://www.brighttalk.com/webcasts/2158/attend. You should also be able to look below this paragraph and log in and register there! Possibly Related Posts: PCI DSS 4.0 Released plus BOOK DETAILS! PCI Council Loses $600K in Revenue, PO Population on the Decline Why PCI DSS 4.0 Needs to be a Complete Rewrite Equifax is only half the problem, your SSN needs a redesign! Orfei Steps Down