Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

I have to second Jeff here .. we have a bunch of Akamai servers in our data center, which is by no stretch of the imagination PCI compliant .. if they were 
going to do something like that, they would have to change their business model of locating their servers here, there and everywhere.

Joel

--On Monday, June 14, 2010 2:47 PM -0400 Jeffrey Schiller <jis () MIT EDU> wrote:

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> On 06/14/2010 02:22 PM, Daniel, Jack wrote:
> > I believe it would be only for static content however if a bank were
> > using Akamai for transaction exchange they do offer a PCI compliant
> > service:
> > http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/2007/press_103007.html
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> This has to be something very different from their normal content
> distribution network. For example we have a pile of Akamai servers
> located in one of our data centers that is not PCI compliant (from a
> physical security standpoint). So in theory there is no way for these
> servers to be PCI compliant. So hopefully they have nothing to do with
> Akamai's PCI compliant payment platform.
>
>                        -Jeff
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Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel