This announcement introduces a new course titled “Protect and Secure Physical Access To Your Cardholder Data,” designed to aid preparation for PCI DSS compliance walkthroughs. The course includes checklists and visitor log templates. Additionally, it emphasizes automating and educating staff to enhance PCI compliance programs effectively.
Maintaining PCI DSS Compliance and a Secure Network: Are Your Network Diagrams Up-to-Date?
Maintaining PCI DSS Compliance is a multi-team effort. And it starts with knowing what’s in scope for assessment. Your network and cardholder data flow diagrams are the heart and soul of your continuous PCI DSS Compliance program.
PCI DSS Compliance Interviews: 10 Tips to Breeze Through Your Next PCI DSS Interview
Do Your Palms Sweat When It Comes Your PCI DSS Interview? Maybe your stomach aches […]
Stop Reinventing the Wheel: Use a Proven PCI DSS Compliance Template Instead
Repeatable processes and proven templates help improve your PCI DSS compliance maturity as well as save you time so that you can focus your attention on assessing evidence or continuous compliance.
PCI Compliance Essentials For Everyone In Your Organization
In PCI Compliance Essentials we’re dropping serious nuggets of wisdom to help organizations get everyone from system administrators, incident response handlers, billing, C-level executives and everyone else who has a piece of the PCI pie ON THE SAME PAGE and speaking THE SAME LANGUAGE.
4 Key PCI DSS Compliance Processes You Need to Implement BEFORE March 31, 2024
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, PCI DSS v4.0 goes into effect on March 31, 2024. Here’s 4 key PCI DSS Compliance processes that you need to have in place by year end.
Implement Continuous PCI Compliance With A Sustainability Framework That REALLY Works!
I’ll be the first to admit that continuous PCI Compliance was beyond my grasp when I started my PCI journey in 2012. I was doing my best not to drown in a sea of confusion and chaos.
If something like our newest course, Implement Continuous PCI Compliance, existed a decade ago, I would have been all over this.
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10 Insider Secrets From a Recovering PCI ISA
10 Insider Secrets From a Recovering PCI ISA
Does this sound familiar?
“I feel like a fraud.”
“I have no idea what I’m doing.”
“How do I know if this evidence meets the PCI DSS requirement?”
“I don’t know how to tell a senior director their software development process is neither secure nor PCI DSS compliant.”
Running or being in charge of a PCI Compliance Program feels like you’ve been given the weight of a thousand worlds to carry.
You have all of the responsibility and zero authority.
It’s like being stuck in a dingy in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
So, how do you get past feeling like a fraud who’s adrift in a vast ocean without any paddles?
I know how overwhelming running a PCI DSS Compliance program is.
That’s why I’m sharing How to Win At PCI Compliance: 10 Insider Secrets From an Ex PCI ISA with you today.
I want help you feel more confident and less adrift.
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10 Essential Tasks To Do BEFORE You Start Your 2023 PCI Report On Compliance
Don’t Start Your 2023 PCI Report on Compliance Without Doing These 10 Essential Tasks FIRST:
The end of the first quarter is quickly approaching. It’s time to get your PCI Compliance house in order.
Because nobody wants to be the next Landry’s and have a $20M fine upheld by federal court.
1. You have a copy of the signed Statement of Work with your QSA
Make sure you have this statement of work at your fingertips throughout your assessment period. This agreement protects you and your QSA for work that is contractually agreed upon.
2. Complete an end-to-end PCI Scope Assessment
The success of your PCI Report on Compliance hinges upon an accurate PCI Scope Assessment.
Your scope assessment includes the who, what, where, when, why, and how of your cardholder data environment and anything or anybody that connects to your cardholder data environment.
5 Actionable Tips To Crush Your Next PCI Report on Compliance
Have you almost quit your PCI Compliance job after submitting your organization’s Report on Compliance?
Don’t be shy. It’s okay if you walked away.
I almost quit I submitted the first PCI Report on Compliance I ever worked on.
December 21, 2012 a day that still dredges up heartburn.
But…
I didn’t quit.
I didn’t walk away.
Instead, I saw the opportunity to build a world class PCI DSS Compliance program.