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Winning the PCI Compliance Battle: A Guide for Merchants and Member Service Providers

Overview This white paper explores the compliance requirements for PCI data security and helps online merchants select a PCI compliance service vendor. It also introduces QualysGuard PCI, which helps online merchants scan and remediate vulnerabilities, and submit PCI compliance status directly to their acquiring banks via its "auto-submission" feature.

Topics in this Whitepaper include:

- Compliance Requirements of the PCI Data Security Standard
- Participation and Validation Requirements
- Selecting a PCI Network Security Testing Service
- Automating the PCI Validation Process with QualysGuard PCI

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Qualys	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	N/A

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