State and local governments that process credit card payments need to know how to conduct a PCI penetration test to remain compliant with the PCI DSS. For state and local governments that accept ...

New guidance from the PCI Security Standards Council specifies how businesses should use penetration testing to identify network vulnerabilities that could be exploited for malicious activity. But ...

Besides the fact that there is no other way to really test your network, The PCI Security Standards Council finally released version 3. 2 and it now states, “To ensure resilience, service providers ...

By now, we all know about the cost and complexity of Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) compliance. Business professionals everywhere have been struggling in the current market ...

RENO, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Conformance Technologies, a fast-growing provider of operating systems, education systems and expertise used in managing business compliance requirements, today announced ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Transact, the leader in innovative credential and payment solutions for a connected campus, today announced the successful completion of the annual SOC 2 Type 2 examination, ...

You have a meeting with the client who needs a pen test for PCI You quickly realize that your client does not know that a clarification was issued that states that pen testing is defined as INTERNAL ...

ERMProtect Cybersecurity Solutions today announced the launch of its new PCI PFI Retainer Program, designed to help organizations that store, process, or transmit payment card data achieve faster, ...

Following the weaknesses identified in pen testing in the first part of this article published earlier this week, we now need to consider if crowdsourced security actually tackles them effectively.

Cybersecurity automation has increased dramatically in the past few years, but penetration testing has remained stubbornly immune. While crowdsourced security evolved as an alternative to pen testing ...

If you ask most folks in business IT to finish the sentence “PCI compliance is _____”, the single most unironic and demonstrative answer you’d probably get would be “hard.” A big part of why PCI is ...

Definition: Penetration testing is a process in which a security professional simulates an attack on a network or computer system to evaluate its security—with the permission of that system’s owners.