APAC market gains PCI momentum

A PCI Blog reports on the increase in interest levels within APAC region.

PCI Answers is a great source of PCI news and contributors very active in PCI space.

PCI pays off

Another Dark Reading article featuring a Bryan Sartin of Cybertrust, discussing how PCI can pay off in the short to long term. He states that "..No organization that has been completely compliant with PCI has been compromised."

Security Breaches are good for you....

Interesting blog post about how breaches or bad news actually increases the company's profits.

Will this mean that companies will be queuing up to disclose their security breaches or health scares (in cases of your local eatery)!?

Is this reverse psychology gone mad?

PCI News for PCI News sake

I am starting to feel that article writers are publishing PCI pieces just for the sake of filling out their quota.
This article outlines what PCI Self Assessment Questionnaire is and the need to complete it with the writer offering his own firm's services to do it I guess.
In this article the writer seems to be going for the "point out the obvious" award for the week. The title of the piece being "PCI Standard Drives Some CISO's Work This Year". I guess the "some CISO's" part of the title refers to the companies who are actually undertaking a PCI project this Year! His next article will be along the lines of "Smoking is bad for your health".

PCI is just too hard..why FD CISO may not be 100% correct

This article over on SearchSecurity.com gauges the reaction to comments from First Data CISO Phil Mellinger, that PCI DSS compliance should essentially be made easier to attain, in order to get more merchants compliant.

It would be nice if a lot of things that were hard or essential, were made easier to achieve. Life would be so much better.

74 Percent of Security Executives Concerned about brand reputation

LONDON --(Business Wire)-- Qualys, Inc., the leading provider of on demand security risk and compliance management solutions, today announced that 74 percent of European senior security executives see the impact of payment card loss on brand reputation as their biggest concern.