Organizations handling debit and ATM personal identification numbers (PINs) are responsible for safeguarding this sensitive information. This responsibility not only makes sense from a customer service perspective amidst rising identity theft cases, but keeping PINs secure is required to comply with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) rules on PIN security and for membership in …
Analysts have continued to predict each year that biometric authentication will hit center stage in payment security. Experts assure us that facial-recognition or retinal scans are no longer ideas for the future, but analysts declare that biometric techniques like these can play an integral part in payment security today. Although we have yet to see …
In keeping with Dara Security’s mission to encourage future generations of Computer Engineers, the company recently established a $1,000 Scholarship at the University of Nevada, Reno. The scholarship is available to Juniors and Seniors working towards their Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering. The first scholarship will be awarded for the 2017-2018 school …
As the number of cyberattacks continues to climb, businesses have remained vigilant in doing all they can to protect their customers’ payment card data. Data protection strategies have varied from regularly testing and strengthening network perimeters to ensuring stolen data is worthless to hackers. Devaluing data so that it is no longer desirable to thieves …
Compliance with the PCI DSS standard is achieved via different methods. For eligible merchants and service providers, validating and reporting PCI DSS compliance could be via the PCI DSS Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ). The SAQ is a tool for eligible entities to evaluate and report PCI DSS compliance through self-assessment. As the SAQ document is a …
The PCI DSS 3.2 standard includes many improvements from previous versions, all of which aim to increase cardholder data protection. We have seen the standard evolve from version 1.1 in 2006 which outlined the basics of the twelve PCI requirements to the current version 3.2 where the twelve requirements have been detailed with extensive explanations, …
