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Welcome to the Coalfire Blog, a resource covering the most important issues in IT security and compliance. You'll also find information on Coalfire's insights into the unique IT GRC issues that impact the industries we serve, including Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare, Higher Education, Software, Government and Utilities.

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  • The PCI SAQ P2PE-HW: Patience, POIs and PIMs

    January 15, 2013, Dan Fritsche, Director, Solution Validation Services

    Dan Fritsche

    The new PCI SAQ P2PE-HW (Point to Point Encryption Self-Assessment Questionnaire) was released in July 2012, and many  merchants are excited about the prospect of  a shorter, less arduous compliance validation effort.  After all, it’s significantly shorter than the SAQ-D; instead 12 sections, there are 4, and 284 controls are reduced to 19. Read More

    Posted in: P2PE, payments, PCI, retail | 0 Comments

  • What's Next in Retail IT? The Convergence of Mobile, P2PE and the Cloud

    January 15, 2013, Rick Dakin, CEO, Co-founder and Chief Security Strategist

    Rick Dakin

    Greetings from the Javits Center in New York City, the site of the National Retail Federation’s Big Show.  This year, the theme of NRF is “Next”.

    When it comes to Retail technology – and in particular, security and compliance, the most talked about “next” things are: Read More

    Posted in: NRF, P2PE, PCI, Retail | 0 Comments

  • P2P Encryption Program now available from PCI Council

    May 25, 2012, Mike Weber, Managing Director, Coalfire Labs

    Mike Weber

    The PCI council has updated the Point-to-Point encryption (P2PE) program requirements (PDF). The update impacts merchants, payment applications, point of sale vendors and service providers. As a participating organization of the PCI P2PE task force, providing input into the standard, I wanted to briefly explain how this affects the various PCI ecosystem participants.

    The ultimate goal of the P2PE program is to reduce the PCI DSS scope that merchants experience by shifting the burden away from merchants toward solution providers who are providing validated P2PE solutions. Deploying validated P2PE solutions will simplify PCI DSS validation for merchants while reducing the risk of cardholder data breaches. Read More

    Posted in: encryption, P2PE, PCI | 0 Comments