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This week, VPN Haus continues its conversation with Branden Williams, a seasoned information security specialist, about PCI and the cloud. VPN Haus: Because of PCI 2.0’s lack of clarity on the cloud, do you think most merchants will only move non-PCI related data to the cloud – until they get more guidance from the Council? [...]
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Conversation with Branden Williams on PCI and the Cloud, Part 2
Posted: 8th March 2011 by VPN Haus in Expert Q&A, PCITags: Cloud, employee security, Network Security, PCI, PCI DSS, security, threats
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Conversation with Branden Williams on PCI and the Cloud, Part 1
Posted: 3rd March 2011 by VPN Haus in Expert Q&A, PCITags: Cloud, IT security, PCI, remote access, security
This week, VPN Haus catches up with Branden Williams, a seasoned information security specialist, about PCI and the cloud. VPN Haus: You’ve blogged about the fact that cloud isn’t overtly mentioned in PCI 2.0. Can you provide some examples of common problems merchants/service providers considering cloud solutions might come up against when dealing with QSAs [...]
Forward Thinking with Anton Chuvakin: Network Security Predictions for 2011, Part 2
Posted: 20th January 2011 by VPN Haus in Industry Commentary, IT policy, PCITags: IT security, PCI, PCI DSS, remote access, security, SSL
By Anton Chuvakin Mainstream security in the cloud: Yes, Qualys and a few others have been doing it since 1999 and a few cloud security providers has been absorbed into large entities (latest, sort of). But I suspect that in 2011 we will see much more of “ approach to security of … now in [...]
PCI DSS 2.0: Anton Chuvakin, PCI compliance expert, on what 2.0 means, Part 2
Posted: 17th November 2010 by VPN Haus in Expert Q&A, Industry Commentary, PCITags: IT security, PCI, PCI DSS, security
VPN Haus continues its conversation with PCI compliance expert Anton Chuvakin about the latest updates to PCI DSS 2.0, issued late last month. VPN Haus: Do the new standards leave too much open to merchant’s interpretation? Anton Chuvakin: This is really a $1 million-question and only practice will tell. I think the 2.0 version leave [...]
Conversation with Martin McKeay on Network Security, Part 2
Posted: 16th September 2010 by VPN Haus in Expert Q&A, Industry Commentary, IT policy, PCITags: encryption, end-to-end encryption, PCI, PCI DSS, tokenization
We continue our conversation with Martin McKeay, a seasoned IT security professional dedicated to spreading awareness about security and privacy through his “Network Security Blog” and podcast series. On whether PCI standards will strengthen: I think the standards are going to change, but slowly. They’ll change faster than a federal mandate could, and I think [...]