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By Mark Weiner, Managing Partner, Reliant Security
RIS News, June 10, 2008
" If seeing the words 'open' and 'secure' in the same sentence seems counterintuitive, don't worry. It did for me as well. However, a growing number of retailers are turning to open source security tools as an alternative to high-priced commercial software across their store environments to meet challenging PCI requirements.
Recent data security breaches, such as the Hannaford's affair, suggest that hackers are focusing on stealing sensitive credit card data at the point of sale. They are focused there for the simple reason that most store systems have only limited protection and provide access to the most valuable data. The commonly prescribed cure to meet this threat is to implement PCI Data Security Standard in its entirety across all systems that store, process, or transmit credit card data including the POS. " read more
About Reliant Security: Reliant Security provides consulting and data security solutions with an emphasis on leveraging open source security tools over commercially available software to provide its client’s with secure and cost-effective solutions. Reliant’s Managed PCI System assists customers in meeting PCI and other information security compliance requirements. For more information please visit our website at www.reliantsec.net.
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