UK - Retailers Face Steep Bills For PCI Compliance
From the UK, Penelope Ody writes for the Retail Bulletin about the costs that retailers will incur to ensure compliance with the card industry's PCI-DSS standard regarding the protection of stored cardholder data.
Achieving compliance for many retailers will be daunting. While downloads of the 12-page DSS may suggest that it is all straightforward, dig a little deeper and there is a hornets’ nest. “Underlying the standard are 170 security audit procedures,” says John Dussin, director of security and EFT consulting for The Logic Group. “In order for our managed services operation to achieve compliance we’ve had to rebuild our entire IT infrastructure and many retailers will have similar issues.”
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