PCI Compliance, Third Edition: Understand and Implement Effective PCI Data Security Standard Compliance
The credit card industry established the PCI Data Security Standards to provide a minimum standard for how vendors should protect data to ensure it is not stolen by fraudsters. PCI Compliance, 3e, provides the information readers need to understand the current PCI Data Security standards, which have recently been updated to version 2.0, and how to effectively implement security within your company to be compliant with the credit card industry guidelines and protect sensitive and personally identifiable information. Security breaches continue to occur on a regular basis, affecting millions of customers and costing companies millions of dollars in fines and reparations. That doesn’t include the effects such security breaches have on the reputation of the companies that suffer attacks. PCI Compliance, 3e, helps readers avoid costly breaches and inefficient compliance initiatives to keep their infrastructure secure.
*Provides a clear explanation of PCI.
*Provides practical case studies, fraud studies, and analysis of PCI.
*The first book to address version 2.0 updates to the PCI DSS, security strategy to keep your infrastructure PCI compliant.
If you are in need of understanding PCI DSS, whether as a merchant, consultant, QSA, processor, IT professional or any of a host of other professions, this boo s will prove to be a valuable resource.
Written in plain English, but with plenty of specifics and even some technical references and resources, PCI Compliance takes the reader through the 12 elements of compliance, identifying methods and pitfalls to ensuring that the reader understands the basics of the compliance approach.
The book itself is easy to read, and the writing style is surprisingly approachable for a subject that doesn’t lend itself to easy readability. Taking the reader through the history and purpose of PCI DSS, exploring the 12 elements, and ultimately assisting the reader in developing the framework of compliance, the book is a valuable resource.
