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DB2 Security and PCI Compliance: A Best Practices Guide

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Overview PCI is a set of collaborative security requirements for the protection of credit card transactions and cardholder data for all brands. This paper will review DB2 solutions that are compliant to the requirements for data at rest encryption in the PCI Data Security Standard and are based on a design that also provides separation of duties, audit, and central key management. The PCI standard incorporates sound and necessary security practices, such as encryption, continuous data access monitoring and control; assessments; auditing and implementation of comprehensive key management processes and procedures for keys used for encryption of cardholder data.

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Publisher	Protegrity	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Standards, Data Recovery - Security, Best Practices

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