For many organizations, compliance with data security standards doesn’t seem to be getting easier. IT security compliance efforts are forever competing with projects to address ever-pressing information security threats, operational vulnerabilities and daily business risks, and they often lose out in the battle for resources and funding.
In this paper, you’ll learn about IT security compliance for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) from an auditor’s perspective. Although PCI DSS represents only a portion of the data security compliance obligations faced by most organizations, it is one of the most significant, especially in light of recent, well-publicized financial security breaches that have plagued many of today’s industry leading corporations.