The PCI DSS: Get Compliant, Stay Compliant

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The PCI DSS: Get Compliant. Stay Compliant. In September 2006, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council released the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) v1.1. This regulation required member financial institutions to be responsible for their own compliance, as well as ensuring the compliance of their merchants and service providers for all payment channels, including in-store, mail/telephone order, and e-commerce.

Many requirements in the PCI DSS focus on the ability to monitor and report on changes made across the IT environment.

Configuration Audit and Control Solutions from Tripwire help validate these PCI requirements by:

• Confirming access to computing resources and cardholder data is limited to the proper individuals
• Validating that patches are deployed properly
• Alerting you to unauthorized changes to firewall rules
• Ensuring wireless network security policies are not circumvented
• Detecting new, modified, or deleted user IDs
• Maintaining file integrity across the entire enterprise

Configuration Audit and Control: 10 Critical Factors for CCM Success As businesses have instituted internal, industry and government mandated regulatory compliance, the need for audit data to provide conformity has also become a necessity. However, traditional change management and configuration management tools do not comprehensively address all aspects of the vast configuration details inherent in complex IT infrastructures. Configuration audit and control provides the tools necessary to collect accurate configuration data, monitor change in real time, promptly remediate problems and ensure a stable and productive environment across the datacenter.

In this case study, you will learn how configuration audit and control can be used effectively to ensure system management productivity, and help reduce costs and sustain configuration viability within the bounds of operational, security and regulatory standards.

This case study details:

• Ten key elements of a configuration and audit control solution
• How configuration audit and control maps to a proven Semantic Model for standardizing the evaluation of IT management solutions
• How to mitigate risks, lower costs, and reduce outages and unplanned work by using configuration audit and control to enforce change policies.

Download this case study and see how configuration audit and control can ensure the success of your change and configuration management procedures and policies.