PCI DSS: An Expert Practitioners’ View

PCI Data Security Standards After almost 29 years in the security industry, more than 4 of those years helping companies achieve and maintain PCI DSS compliance (as a Qualified Security Assessor (PCI QSA)) and helping to develop ISACA’s Practical Guide to PCI DSS , I...

How ‘Dark’ is The Dark Web?

In his 2015 Ted talk, ‘How the Mysterious Dark Web is Going Mainstream‘ Jamie Bartlett proposes that, if you want to buy high quality, low priced cocaine, there really is only one place to go and that is the dark net, anonymous market known as The Dark...

What is PCI DSS?

For consumers, access to credit and debit cards (collectively ‘Payment Cards‘) offers highly attractive benefits when paying for goods and services such as not having to carry cash, deferred payments and the option to pay for things over time. And for the...