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• Sportsbet reduces pain of PCI compliance

  PCI compliance – the body of regulations applying to businesses that process credit and debit card payments – "absolutely annoys the living crap" out of Scott Rosicka.

• Security standards council cuts through PCI cloud confusion

  Can you hold Payment Card Information (PCI) data in a cloud-based service? Yes, but doing so isn't straightforward, so the PCI Security Standards Council has published a guideline that clarifies what approaches compliance-minded businesses can take.

• Don’t rely on Cloud vendors for PCI compliance: Report

  Hosting data in a public Cloud may save money but companies should investigate if payment card industry (PCI) compliance is covered first, according to security consultant firm Pure Hacking.
  

• PCI compliance requirements for Aussie businesses

  Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) refer to a set of standards that must be followed by big and small businesses alike when accepting, storing, processing and transmitting customers’ credit card information. To be compliant with PCI standards, all business owners, including online retailers, should adhere to 12 PCI compliance requirements for best security practices.

• Understanding PCI compliance auditing

  Businesses of all sizes must undertake PCI compliance auditing to ensure that their customers' data is protected during credit or debit card transactions and if stored within any internal business databases.

• PCI compliance checklist

  If you're business is obliged to undertake a PCI audit, then following a PCI Compliance checklist will ensure that you're security processes and payment processing meet the compliance standards. To ensure that you are meeting PCI compliance standards, you'll need to start by looking at what exactly PCI compliant means.

• PCI compliance services in Australia

  If you operate, own or hold a management role in an Australian business that stores, transmits and processes customer payment data, you may have recently been contacted by your bank regarding your PCI compliance status.

• What is PCI compliance?

  If you're wondering exactly what is PCI compliance, the chances are you're one of the many business owners in Australia who've asked themselves this same question. Before answering this question, it's useful to begin by looking at what PCI (and its counterpart DSS) stands for.

• Queensland Police to audit PCI compliance

  The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is to shortly carry out a series of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance assessments and reviews aimed at addressing any deficiencies or gaps in current ICT systems.

• Lax attitude to PCI, security costing businesses: Investigator

  Merchants who view security and payment card industry (PCI) compliance as an extra cost will be rueing the decision when hackers hoping to swipe credit card data strike, believes one industry specialist.

• Former CIO urges enterprises towards PCI compliance

  Australian banks may have been working through their own Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance issues, but that won’t stop them from fining business merchants from failing to meet the terms of the security initiative, according to an industry specialist.