Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) by Viviana Wesley, PCI QSA, ISO 27001 Auditor The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) will be releasing version 3.2 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) in the second quarter of 2016 and will become effective as soon as it’s published. PCI […]
HIPAA INFORMATION AND EMAIL by Tod Ferran, CISSP, QSA According to HHS, “the Security Rule does not expressly prohibit the use of email for sending e-PHI. However, the standards for access control, integrity and transmission security require covered entities to implement policies and procedures to restrict access to, protect the integrity of, and guard against […]
SSL No Longer Considered Strong Cryptography Author: Viviana Wesley, PCI QSA In a recent bulletin the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) stated that updates will be forthcoming to the Data Security Standard (DSS) version 3.0 – and very soon. The change is related to vulnerabilities seen with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptography.