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PCI deadline will not be met by most retailers
According to Gartner, most of the analyst firm’s clients will not be ready to meet the PCI-DSS Section 6.6 deadline of 30th June. After this date all merchants that accept payment card transactions will have to use either a specialised firewall to protect web applications or to have completed a web application software code review to ensure that any vulnerability is discovered and fixed.
Even though these measures have been encouraged as best practice over the past 18 months, Gartner’s comments seem to point to the fact that many are still not in a position to adhere to this new regulation. Indeed, many appear to be still struggling with the exact actions they need to undertake, let alone to start putting them in place.
dns believes that even retailers that have started the process are in many cases looking for a quick fix solution, focusing on installing web application firewalls, instead of undertaking the full code review. This obviously will bring them in line with current... [ more ]
CAPS certification for DISK Protect™ Baseline version 3.3 with support for Windows Vista
BeCrypt has achieved CESG Assisted Products Service (CAPS) certification for version 3.3 of its DISK Protect Baseline product which includes support for Windows Vista. DISK Protect Baseline v3.3 provides Becrypt’s range of security and encryption features available in a CAPS approved product.
The product includes configuration options such as password policy definition, allowing password length, format and life to be defined. This flexibility allows data owners to balance practical aspects of security, and data sensitivity when defining local policy and managing risk. Similarly, through CESG guidance, policy controlling product key life can be defined to balance business and security requirements.
DISK Protect Baseline also provides approved encryption for removable storage media, such as USB devices. It supports multiple users on a single PC, and supports a wide range of security tokens including the Aladdin R2e and eToken PRO, RSA 5100, 5200, 6100 and 6200 and SID800 smar... [ more ]
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