The Developers Guide to PCI DSS and PA DSS Requirements

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) has a large number of requirements pertaining to the development and maintenance of payment applications. The requirements span development, maintenance, support, access controls, auditing & logging, security awareness, assessment, and policies. Not only does this apply to the systems within a cardholder environment but also to supporting applications and your organization’s overall SDLC. Furthermore, these application specific requirements are often overlooked or misunderstood by development and information security departments. Within this presentation, we will review the most relevant PCI requirements that developers and application owners must focus on and how your organization can confidently comply.

Bio: ( From netspi.com ) Seth Peter is a computer security expert with extensive experience with all aspects of information security. He was a founder of the computer forensics team at Kroll Ontrack where he provided expert witness testimony and depositions regarding high profile computer security cases. As the founder and CTO of NetSPI, he is a national leader in risk management and security program assessment. Seth has provided consulting to over 100 different organizations within financial services, government, health care, education, nuclear energy, and retail. Seth is a Payment Card Industry Qualified Security Assessor and Visa Qualified Payment Application Security Professional. Seth holds a B.A. degree in Mathematics from Kenyon College.

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the co-founder of Axonize. Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net