You might have noticed things have gone a little quiet round here, as my last blog post seemed to get me into a spot of trouble… Anyway. It’s certainly not my style to tread on the feet of a major UK acquirer and in the end I was asked to remove the names of the […]
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We all know what risk is. It’s like stepping outside of the house in the morning, looking up at the sky, working out whether or not you think it’s going to rain and then working out whether or not it’s going to rain enough to warrant taking an umbrella, full waterproofs or avoiding the rain
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If you’re hitting section 5.1.1 of PCI DSS and want to verify that all anti-virus programs detect, remove, and protect against all known types of malicious software (for example, viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware, adware, and rootkits), then what do you do? How do you test anti-virus software actually works? I’ve been using the EICAR test
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What a great little tool to help verify SSL configurations. If you’re working through PCI DSS and hit section 4.1a, then www.ssllabs.com does a grand job at ensuring your SSL configuration is inline with security best practice. Still not too convinced that I need to ‘sample’ some HTTPS network traffic to make sure it’s actually
Version 2.0 of the Prioritized Approach has been released and is available for download at www.pcisecuritystandards.org. So what’s moved? A number of controls have been moved from milestones 5/6 to milestones 2/4: 9.1 – Physical Access 10.5 – Audit Trail Integrity 11.1 – Wireless Scans 12.5.3 / 12.9 – Incident Response Plan 11.3 – Penetration
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Having a poke around recently, it became apparent that there was no clear definition as to what a DSE or a TPP actually ‘is’. Some QSAs have assumed that Third Party Processor (TPP) in effect means ANY payment/transaction service provider and have incorrectly classed entities that service To clarify what a TPP actually is –
Dear MasterCard, what is a DSE? Read More »
Finally those little snippets of electronic information that websites have left behind on your computer will be subject to EU legislation. Website owners (at least those based in the UK) will need to get consent from visitors in order to store cookies on user’s computers. The revised Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations come into ‘force’
It’s far too depressing to blog about the state of information security affairs in the world today – a criminal clicks his/her fingers and corporations are brought to their knees… so today, what does it mean to be President of ISSA-UK, what do I get up to and why do I do it? Partly, the
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