The Choice is No Longer Yours – Changes to PCI

Passing an annual ROC or SAQ is not enough—PCI DSS is meant as a foundation for year-round compliance. The author offers a cheat sheet to schedule and assign recurring DSS 2.0 maintenance tasks.

Because of increasing threats, high-profile data breaches, and increased awareness of the damage they cause, we anticipate a substantial tightening of regulations and contractual requirements that will significantly impact information security in healthcare.

The last few years have seen a great deal of discussion, arguing, hand-wringing, and posturing within the retail/hospitality community regarding the PCI DSS.

As many organizations that have hired QSAs recently have seen, the Report on Compliance (ROC) has changed quite dramatically for v1.2 of the PCI DSS standard from previous versions.

As a company, we’ve tried to understand which organizations are most likely to mature their information security programs.

Preparing for an audit can be one of the best ways to fund and improve your security program, but this “stimulus package” for your compliance effort typically dwindles once an organization completes or passes an audit.