Darkreading: compliance

[gem at cigital.com (Gary McGraw)]

Hi all,

Another big momentum machine for software security (and data security) is PCI compliance.   There is a challenge, 
though, and that is figuring out where the credit card data that you want to protect are.   We've found in our practice 
at cigital that the data are literally scattered all over the enterprise.   Because of this, hair-brained solutions 
like application firewalls (something called out in the PCI standards) often don't help.

I think PCI compliance is doing for data security and data risk what SOX did for software security and sofware risk.   
They both help with problem awareness.

To answer your question directly, we see lots of large enterprises working hard on PCI these days.

gem

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 -----Original Message-----
From:   McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) [mailto:James.McGovern at thehartford.com]
Sent:   Mon Apr 02 11:15:49 2007
To:     SC-L at securecoding.org
Subject:        [SC-L] Darkreading: compliance

SoX has done a wonderful job of getting enterprises to embrace the notion of holistic identity and access management 
which wasn't occuring prior to it. It would be interesting to hear from folks here what other enterprise initiatives do 
you think that should be on the radar of large enterprises.


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