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Securely handling credit card transactions earns Blackboard kudos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Sat Jun 10 15:28:53 2006
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Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:36:24 -0600
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
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Securely handling credit card transactions earns Blackboard kudos
http://www.contactlessnews.com/library/2006/06/08/securely-handling-credit-card-transactions-earns-blackboard-kudos/
... from above
"These programs utilize the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security
standard as the foundation to assess third-party processors," he added.
"This standard ensures that all third-party processes safely and
securely store, process, and transmit sensitive credit card data across
their network infrastructures. This is the second year that Blackboard
has achieved this milestone in the payment card industry."
... snip ...
couple other refs
http://usa.visa.com/business/accepting_visa/ops_risk_management/cisp.html
https://sdp.mastercardintl.com/
this can also somewhat be considered from the standpoint of my old
security proportional to risk posting
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#61
however, it can also be interpreted that "sensitive credit card data" is
represented by an infrastructure with naked and vulnerable transactions:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm24.htm#5 New ISO standard aims to
ensure the security of financial transactions on the Internet
i.e. that when dealing with naked and vulnerable transactions then the
overall infrastructure requires extensive armoring (as countermeasure to
attacks on naked transactions that otherwise don't have any of their own
protection)
one might be tempted to draw an analogy with the bubble boy reference
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074236/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258470/
about the countermeasures needed for a boy that was w/o his own immune
system to combat attacks.
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