As of September 30, 2010, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) will apply to organizations in the UK. Recent research reveals that so far only 12 percent of UK organizations that handle credit card data currently have been certified PCI compliant. Read on to learn how your organization should be preparing for September 30th. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we hear from Visa Europe CIO Steve Chambers on the technology behind the credit card transactions that retailers rely on. We examine the challenges facing the government's G-Cloud project; and we ask how Microsoft will cope when customers no longer want to purchase software licences. Download the new issue now. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now. 

Over the past 20 years, financial institutions, governments, insurers and retailers have seen an explosion in the amount and types of fraud perpetrated against them. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we look at IBM's work with England's rugby team and Premier League football on how business analytics can improve the chances of winning at sport. We find out the issues to consider when negotiating cloud contracts. And we examine how software-defined networking will automate network management. Read the issue now. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, Oxfam's CIO talks about how IT supports a global aid operation; we ask if £530m government funding will be enough to roll-out superfast broadband; we examine the security issues around moving to IPv6; plus our analysis of the week’s biggest news stories in IT. Download the latest issue now. 

This exclusive Computer Weekly research reveals how UK IT departments are prioritising their budgets in 2012, which technologies they are investing in, and the impact of cloud computing, mobile and other disruptive technology on their IT strategies. 

A capability-led approach to enterprise architecture provides the rigour and structure that will allow companies to ‘do EA properly’ and deliver real business value, this paper argues. 

To avoid fines and meet an upcoming compliance deadline, call centre services provider, RESPONSE (Building Rewarding Relationships), needed to improve security. Read this paper to learn how the organisation secured an easily installed and managed security solution that could also be deployed in time to meet the looming deadline. 

For Commerzbank streamlining the corporate credit lines to corporations and institutions, streamlining the corporate credit lending process to reduce paper and drive down costs had become a top priority. 

The PCI DSS standard was created to prevent credit card fraud by requiring the implementation of certain controls and processes by all entities involved in the processing of credit cards. This paper will illustrate how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops can help organizations comply with specific PCI DSS mandates. 

This White Paper discusses how Intel SOA Expressway security gateway-generated tokens can replace card numbers with surrogates, removing systems from scope.