Compliance franchise or real security
I’ve been saying for a long time now that compliance standards like PCI DSS 1.2 have created a marketing franchise for auditors instead of improving security. Empirical evidence of the past 2 years suggests that compliance focuses on meeting auditor requirements instead of assuring actual security of your systems and customer data assets. Here’s an […]
The physics of risk assessment
Quantity or quality – that is the question! There is a great deal of debate between the supporters of quantitative risk assessment and the supporters of qualitative risk assessment in the security and compliance business. The qualitative people say that since it is impossible to estimate risk as an absolute number such as “87 percent […]
Credit card security franchise available
just saw a post from a month ago by Jeremiah Grossman from White Hat Security on his blog PCI-DSS references the outdated OWASP Top Ten There are actually a number of more serious technical issues with PCI DSS 1.1 than using the OWASP Top 10 from 4 years ago. Note the definition of vulnerability management […]
