Penetration Testing, Security Program, CCPA, ISO27001

Do you have APIs? How do you test them?

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) have changed in nature in recent years and are increasingly (and sometimes inadvertently) being made available to users of web services, the “Apps” (applications) on mobile devices, and internally for the web application to talk to the back

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PCI DSS

What Constitutes a Primary Function for PCI DSS?

PCI DSS requirement 2.2.1.a says “describe how system configurations verified that only one primary function per server is implemented.”

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PCI DSS

Due Diligence for PCI DSS Vendor Selection

PCI DSS Requirement 12.8 dictates that any organization involved in payment card processing—including merchants, processors, acquirers, issuers, and service providers—must have policies and procedures in place to manage its service providers.

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PCI DSS, Security Program

I never touch Cardholder Data - Does PCI DSS Apply to me?

Payment cards have been around a long time, and nefarious schemes to take advantage of them have been around almost as long. Since most people do not read the legal agreements they sign up to, they are unaware of their real responsibilities towards

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PCI DSS, Security Program

Secure Coding 201: Does it Exist?

I constantly hear that recent computer science graduates have not even been introduced to the notion of secure coding. They may have been taught to program in half a dozen different languages and styles, but their assignments have never been run

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PCI DSS

A Summary of Deadlines in PCI 3.2

Everybody - Immediately Existing implementations that use SSL and/or early TLS must have a formal Risk Mitigation and Migration Plan in place New implementations must not use SSL and/or early TLS

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