PCI Terminology
Understanding a compliance standard requires understanding all of its terminology and jargon. We've compiled our own glossary of terms for the PCI DSS to provide additional clarity beyond the Official PCI SSC Glossary.
IT Risk Assessment
To prevent any risk of a security breach, it is always a good idea to conduct a periodic risk assessment. A risk assessment will help identify the areas where your company is most susceptible to an attack from a hacker or thief. The fall-out from a security breach is enough to shutdown any business, but has the greatest impact on small businesses. In the event of a security breach a business could be hit with fines, additional compliance requirements, as well as bad publicity, any of which could be enough to force a business to close its doors and be out-of-business. Making security a priority and routinely assessing your security posture can protect your company against potential threats and reduce its risk exposure.
PCI Task Calendar
PCI compliance is comprised of over 200 individual requirements. Many of the requirements in the PCI DSS must be maintained throughout the year and conducted on a recurring basis. To help your organization stay on top of PCI compliance and be prepared for the next PCI assessment, we have put together a list of key requirements and recurring tasks.
Vulnerability Scanning from AWS
At Aeris Secure, we really enjoy Amazon's infrastructure, AWS. Like most organizations, we went from having a sense of pride in our nice physical servers to eventually resenting the trips to the collocation that cloud providers make unnecessary. We enjoy all of the services that one can access with the flip of a switch, most of which require little configuration and monitoring overhead to keep running.
Dairy Queen Data Breach Impacts Arizona Business Owners
After a few weeks of speculation, Diary Queen has confirmed that nearly 400 locations were compromised in a recent data security breach. Among the 400 locations affected, 9 were local Arizona businesses.