Maturity and Convergence at the PCI-SSC Community Meeting

Though major frameworks mandate periodic risk assessments, many organizations struggle to build the process. The author covers scoping, identifying threats, and quantifying impact and likelihood.

Integrating security checks and balances with your application development processes is certainly uncharted territory for many security professionals.

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.

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.