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Extending PCI Compliance to the Mobile Workforce

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The headlines are scary: "47.5 million credit and debit-card numbers were stolen from TJX Companies.""Hannaford Brothers Companies data breach results in 2,000 cases of known fraud." "GE Money mishap could affect 650,000 J.C. Penney customers." Millions of people have already received notice that their personal and financial information might have been compromised. These and other instances of security breaches of merchants' payment card systems have led industry leaders to take action to help prevent even more occurrences and huge financial losses due to theft and fraud.
As a first step, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council developed an explicit Data Security Standard (DSS) which outlines the minimum controls necessary to protect the system components that support cardholder data environments. As a second and equally important step, the Council added teeth to the security standard by enforcing it through regular audits and assessments conducted by authorized agencies.

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