PCI DSS: Restricting Access to Cardholder Data
By John Elliott and Jacob Ansari
Course info
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Description
The key to achieving PCI DSS compliance is a thorough knowledge of each of the sub-requirements and how they will be assessed. In this course, PCI DSS: Restricting Access to Cardholder Data, you’ll learn how to interpret PCI DSS requirements 7, 8 & 9, and apply them to your organization. First, you’ll learn how PCI DSS wants role-based access and based on least privilege and need to know. Next, you’ll explore the long and prescriptive requirements about username, passwords and multi-factor authentication. Then you’ll take a look at the requirements related to the protection of cardholder data in physical format – written in paper and saved to electronic media. Finally, you’ll discover practical insights about both requirements from experienced PCI assessors. When you’ve finished with this course you will have the skills and knowledge to apply PCI DSS requirements 7, 8 and 9 to any organization’s environment and to determine whether it is compliant with the demands of the standard.
About the author
John Elliott is a data protection specialist. He helps organizations comply with regulations in a sensible and pragmatic way, balancing business needs, risk and regulations.
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About the author
Jacob Ansari worked on Pluralsight courses that cover the topic of PCI DSS Standards.
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Course Overview
[Autogenerated] Hello. My name is John Elliott. Welcome to the course. PC IDE CSS restricting access to cardholder data. In this course, I bring together the theoretical knowledge of PC IDE CSS requirements 78 on nine, along with practical experience of how the standard really works. And I'm Jacob. I'm sorry, I'm a qualified security assessor or que se will shaman and company. And I'm qualified to assess many of the PC I standards, including PC IDE, CSS, Ph. D. S S and P to be. I've been an assessor for 14 years and have been doing this since the predecessor standards to PC IDE CSS. In this course, we will cover the authorization or and authentication related requirements of PC IDE CSS. So that's things like least privileged access control passwords on multi factor authentication as well as looking at logical access controls. We're going to find out about the physical security requirements and CSS ranging from simple things such as visitor control and secure buildings, to how to prevent skimming and tampering attacks against devices that read payment cards. But each PC IDE CSS requirement. I'm going to cover what the standards says, what it means on what will be assessed by Husa. Then Jacob and I will discuss some of the key practical aspect of getting compliance on being assessed. Ideally, you'll already understand the basics of payment card processing and PC IDE S s. But if you just want to get to grips with the requirement, you'll be able to jump straight in with no problems. By the end of this course, you'll have a great understanding of both the theory and the practice to help you restrict access to cardholder data following the PC IDE CSS requirements. We do hope you enjoying us to learn the theory and practice behind PC IDE CSS requirements 78 and nine with the PC IDE CSS restricting access to cardholder data course here apps Pluralsight.