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Software SecurityAUD521: Meeting the Minimum: PCI/DSS 2.0: Becoming and Staying Compliant
- 12 CPE/CMU
- Laptop Required
The payment card industry has been working over the past several years to formalize a standard for security practices that are required for organizations that process or handle payment card transactions. The fruit of this labor is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (currently at version 2.0).
This standard, which started life as the Visa Digital Dozen, is a set of focused comprehensive controls for managing the risks surrounding payment card transactions, particularly over the Internet. Of course, compliance validation is one of the requirements. This course was created to allow organizations to exercise due care by performing internal validations through a repeatable, objective process. While the course will cover all of the requirements of the standard, the primary focus is on the technical controls and how they can be measured. Every student will leave the class with a toolkit that can be used to validate any PCI/DSS environment technically and the knowledge of how to use it.
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| AUD521.1: Meeting the Minimum: PCI/DSS 2.0: Becoming and Staying Compliant |
OverviewOn the first day of this class we will cover some of the history of the PCI and discuss the various compliance tiers that the standard defines. Time will also be spent covering some of the items that your organization should take care of before attempting to implement or comply with PCI. Following these discussions, detailed discussion of the PCI requirements will follow with a particular focus on measurable technical controls. CPE/CMU Credits: 6 |
| AUD521.2: Meeting the Minimum: PCI/DSS 2.0: Becoming and Staying Compliant |
OverviewDay two of the PCI/DSS course picks up with requirement four of the PCI/DSS standard. Some of the major highlights for this day include a testing system for SSL configuration and certificates within our environment, validating protection of cardholder information in web transactions, and web application analysis. Students will have the opportunity to perform hands on testing of a live web environment using a set of specially developed tools and methods. By the end of this day, those attending will be prepared to perform technical validations of the most important technical requirements in the standard. CPE/CMU Credits: 6 |
| Additional Information |
| Laptop Required |
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Audit 521 requires that you bring a laptop that meets the following minimum requirements. If your system does not meet these minimum requirements it is likely that you will have difficulty completing the hands on portion of the course.
If you have additional questions about the laptop specifications, please contact laptop_prep@sans.org. |
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