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Deadline arrives for latest PCI standard requirement

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The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), as of Monday, states that web application security testing be upgraded from a best practice to a requirement. However, only a small number of companies are prepared for the deadline, said Joey Peloquin, senior security consultant for Hewlett-Packard, adding that had expected an increase in the inquiries regarding compliance, but that increase never happened. “Companies had since September 2006 to prepare. That's when [the first version of PCI DSS] was officially released,” Peloquin told SCMagazineUS.com on Monday. “And Section 6.6 (as a best practice) was in that document.”

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