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Category: Scoping

Data Flow Diagrams

The Report on Compliance suggests that Cardholder data-flow diagrams may also be included as a supplement to the description of how cardholder data is transmitted and/or processed.  Regardless they are great way to communicate and document the CDE and PCI DSS scope. FAQ Article Number 1178 from February 2011 … An important prerequisite to reduce…

PCI compliance and big P Politics

What is behind MPI’s decision to stop the acceptance of preauthorized credit card payments? Politics? Lobbyists? Pressure from the broker association? Lucrative broker commission payments? Maybe according to the Winnipeg Free Press. Saving money?  Apparently, but the savings are coming from the reduced scope of PCI DSS compliance by eliminating cardholder data storage (according to CBC reporting). …

Does using telnet for admin always require at least a compensating control?

The PCI Guru has an article about an issue with PCI DSS requirement 2.3.b https://pciguru.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/we-need-a-change-to-2-3-b/ Reminder of what 2.3.b is about: 2.3.b Review services and parameter files on systems to determine that Telnet and other insecure remote-login commands are not available for non-console access. And the guidance for 2.3 is: If non-console (including remote) administration…

the Council Plans to Publish Scoping Guidance!

The latest news update for QSA’s includes news of an upcoming holiday gift for those in the PCI DSS world! The Security Standards Council plans to publish “Guidance for PCI DSS Scoping and Network Segmentation.”  in December 2016.  The Council informs that the guidance “aims to clarify scoping and segmentation principles provided in the PCI DSS”.…