This paper discusses how protecting cardholder data is a critical and mandatory requirement for all organizations that process, store or transmit information on credit or debit cards and the requirements and guidelines for securing cardholder data are specified in the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). 

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Collaboration Oriented Architectures (COA) describes information architectures that comply with the COA framework, which in turn is described in the associated COA Framework paper1. 

Information must be classified using an appropriate Classification Scheme as defined in the Jericho Forum’s Information Classification2 position paper. 

Listen to this brief podcast now as Gartner analyst Mark McDonald discusses the roles of amplifiers in the enterprise, touching on how mobility, cloud computing, analytics and social media are driving companies today. Also learn how cost, complexity and duplication can hinder collaboration efforts. 

Successful execution of an SOA strategy, combined with the release of the business value contained in legacy systems, can bring five proven benefits to the enterprise. Functioning as both a software development environment and a delivery framework, SOA provides a mechanism for defining business services and operating models. 

De-perimeterisation is the term coined by the Jericho Forum to describe the erosion of thetraditional ‘secure’ perimeters, or ‘network boundaries’, as a mediators of trust and security. 

The Jericho Forum has been described in a crude way as ‘those people who want to get rid offirewalls’. That’s not strictly accurate – Jericho believes that protection should be appliedclose to data (JFC#1, JFC#9)1, and that firewalls should just be ‘quality of serviceseparators’. 

Read this informative paper to discover how you can tap into your consumer's social media behaviours for useful data. 

This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to private cloud. It also contains our RSA conference coverage of the latest IT security trends and the future for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative. And we discuss the role of apprenticeships in encouraging more young people to work in IT.