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Achieving PCI Compliance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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linux - open source

Overview The payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS) provides best practice security standards that protect systems that handle credit and debit card data. Red Hat solutions are PCI-compliant, with plans to expand and enhance systems and tools that enable adherence to PCI standards and the use of innovative technologies like virtualization and cloud computing. This paper explains how Red Hat technologies map to the various requirements of PCI Compliance, and can help you meet or exceed the security needs and future possibilities of the standard.

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Publisher	Red Hat	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Cloud Computing

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Red Hat

Tags:
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Publisher:
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Tags:
linux - open source

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linux - open source

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Publisher:
Optical Image Technology

Tags:
web content management

Linux standards lab sets up shop in China

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Credit card companies forge security alliance

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IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'

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Legal Eye: Tech could brighten retailers' gloom

Updates to the British Banking Code's treatment of internet fraud and to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) have both given retailers new parameters for the prevention, prosecution and compensation of card-not-present fraud.

Is your credit card data well enough protected?

The credit card industry maintained at a congressional hearing on Tuesday that self-regulation is effective, pointing out that since the PCI standards were published, security breaches have occurred only when an entity is not fully in compliance...

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Retail & Leisure
Tags:
data

Tech big guns form cloud standards group

With the DMTF's track record for leading the industry in the development of proven standards for management interoperability, along with its extensive network of Alliance Partners, this Open Cloud Standards Incubator provides an ideal setting for...

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Applications
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ibm,
microsoft

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