At a recent meeting of the UK Merchants' PCI Working Group I mentioned that there was some soft case law in the form of ICO enforcement action which helps to answer the question of whether PCI DSS is sufficient to meet GDPR’s requirement for organisations to implement “appropriate technical
I’ve read some pretty amazing articles and blogs in the last week that show quite a misunderstanding about how criminals steal money, how payments work and how the new General Data Protection Regulation would both punish Tesco Bank and simultaneously remedy all ills. Cyber security and financial crime is
I put together this series of sample PCIP questions and answers to help a friend who was revising for her PCIP exam. She passed and so I hope you also find them useful. It is a while since I actually took a PCI SSC exam and so these questions might
It is rare for the DSS to get smaller, each version typically adds a few requirements based on lessons from forensic investigations of breaches of cardholder data. However, in the summary of changes from version 3.1 to version 3.2 published this week I noticed:
<br><Question: Is pre-authorisation data in scope of PCI DSS?
Answer: Yes.
There’s quite a bit of misleading information on the internet about the status of pre-authorisation data. As far as all the card schemes are concerned there’s no difference between pre-authorisation data and post-authorisation data. If you store,
