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PCI DSS Compliance: Overview and Common Issues

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Overview The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a set of comprehensive requirements for enhancing account data security, developed by the founding payment brands of the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI-SSC), including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa inc. International. The PCI-DSS was created to help facilitate the broad adoption of consistent data security measures on a global basis. As a PCI-SSC Qualified Security Assessor (QSA), SMART has helped many customers overcome the challenges of PCI-DSS compliance. In its experience, it has noticed that there are a number of common issues at customers face while trying to reach compliance.

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Publisher	SMART Business Advisory and Consulting	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Standards, Security Management, Data Recovery - Security

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Tags:
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Channel:
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Channel:
Financial Services
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atm,
pin,
steal

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