Your PCI Risk Assessment: Security vs. Compliance
by Geoff Yeagley on May 14, 2015 at 8:58 AM
Most people often think that security and compliance are the same thing, especially when looking at conducting a PCI Risk Assessment. Truth is, these are two very different topics yet are interchanged very frequently. A good place for us to start is to define these terms so that we kn …
Vendor Management Software: Why You Need It Now
by Geoff Yeagley on May 12, 2015 at 8:56 AM
Vendor Management is certainly not a new topic to discuss but it certainly has been gaining quite a bit of attention lately due to some high profile new articles, namely the Target breach of 2013. In that instance, hackers gained access to Target’s point-of-sale systems to steal the c …
The PCI Risk Assessment: Three Examples of When to Conduct One
by Geoff Yeagley on May 4, 2015 at 10:19 AM
Almost every day we hear in the news more details about a suspected credit card breach that puts the personal information of thousands, if not millions, of people in the hands of individuals whose only intent is to cause them harm. Naturally this raises the question of what is a PCI R …