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Guide To Passing PCI's Five Toughest Requirements
www.SearchSecurity.com - 05/14/08

If you fail PCI requirement #3 - protect stored data - you're just like 79 percent of failed assessments. It's time to break away from the pack. PCI requirements are tough but if you take the right steps, you can pass not only the five most challenging requirements, but all 12 of them.

Read the "Guide To Passing PCI's Five Toughest Requirements" by security expert Craig Norris for valuable tips on achieving PCI DSS compliance, including how to:

• Ensure encryption across all systems that touch credit card holder data - including data warehouses, development servers, middleware and backup systems
• Perform regular internal and external network scans against new weaknesses that appear daily
• Utilize trusted zones and perimeter firewalls installed between wireless networks and the cardholder data environment

Norris is a regional engagement manager at an IT consulting firm in Dallas. He has been involved with information technology and security for more than 12 years.

This expert advice is part of a continuing series on IBM best practices for IT security management. IBM security services and solutions such as Tivoli®, Internet Security Systems™, and Rational® enable customers to better manage their infrastructure, operations and IT processes.

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