PCI Wireless Risk Assessment
Cost Effective PCI Wireless Compliance for Retail.
Pentura’s PCI DSS Wireless Risk Assessment will ensure that deployed wireless networks transmitting cardholder data use industry best practices and will identify any areas of weakness in regards to encryption, authentication and transmission.
The introduction of wireless technologies has created a new category of entry points into retail networks, potentially exposing sensitive data that is otherwise protected by wired security measures.
Whether an organisation has an official Wireless LAN (WLAN) or a no wireless policy, they need to account for these vulnerabilities; a single unattended wireless device, let alone a wireless LAN, can compromise the entire security of an enterprise network.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has become the de facto standard in the payment card industry. Twelve best-practice principles are defined by the standard, aimed at securing credit card data. Participating vendors must comply with these requirements whenever they store, process, or transmit a credit card account number. Those vendors that have wireless devices involved in storing, processing, or transmitting cardholder data, must follow the wireless-related requirements of PCI DSS.
Other vendors whose systems contain wireless devices that can access the cardholder data environment (from wired or wireless connectivity) also fall under the ambit of PCI DSS wireless requirements. For example, if a vendor has a wireless-enabled laptop that can access the cardholder data environment over the wired network, the vendor must follow PCI DSS wireless requirements and testing procedures.
PCI DSS 1.2, was released on October 2, 2008. While PCI DSS 1.2 does not add new requirements to the existing PCI DSS 1.1, it does expand on several of those requirements, especially those pertaining wireless to retail operations.
Pentura have analysed the wireless security requirements defined in PCI DSS 1.2 and have created a cost effective PCI DSS Wireless Risk Assessment (PCI DSS WRA) to assist vendors in compliance.
Download the datasheet for information on the Wireless PCI DSS requirements and understand how the PCI DSS Wireless Risk Assessment will address the issues.
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