A number of factors are driving financial institutions to re-evaluate their payment methods.  These factors include regulations such as Single Euro Payments Area in Europe, which calls for new payment vehicles for customers. Find out how one financial institution was able to meet compliance demands by utilizing a secure payments infrastructure. 

This article in our Royal Holloway Information Security series looks in detail at two key principles necessary for secure payments: fair exchange and non-repudiation. 

Cisco PCI Compliance Services assist companies in achieving and maintaining PCI compliance. Read about vulnerability and gap assessments, remediation work to achieve compliance, and continuous monitoring to maintain PCI compliance. 

Explore encryption management for credit card data to ensure performance and availability of SAP applications. Learn implementation requirements, hurdles to development, and how you can improve security of sensitive customer information. 

This paper will analyze the lifetime cost of ownership for a typical on-premises SME business management system and compare it to the cost of an equivalent SAP Business ByDesign implementation. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we reveal our annual UKtech50 list of the 50 most influential people in UK IT, and interview the winner, Warren East, CEO of chip design firm ARM. Also in this issue, we conclude our buyer's guide to infrastructure as a service with an in-depth analysis of Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. Read the issue now. 

IBM offers comprehensive solutions designed to take businesses through the entire PCI compliance process and continue to meet new requirements, supporting the next level of security. Read the white paper ‘Escaping PCI Purgatory’ to learn more. 

While there are multiple regulatory compliance standards, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) addresses a sector with the greatest number of data breaches. Check out this Presentation Transcript to discover key differences between PCI DSS version 1.1 and 1.2, best practices for ensuring compliance, and tips. 

Outsourcing credit card processing has emerged as a sensible solution for staying compliant with Payment Card Industry (PCI) demands, as well as a great way to cost-effectively cut down on risk.Read this expert guide to learn how outsourcing can help make life easier with a number of benefits. 

IBM Rational offers a life-cycle approach to managing quality through quality management solutions, test integration, integrated requirements management and lean collaborative development to help you achieve greater consistency, efficiency and predictability in your delivered solutions. Download this paper to learn more.  

This paper highlights both positive developments and challenges the industry faces in the year ahead. More technological and advanced thinking in terms of PCI scope is clearly welcome news for merchants, and the hope is that it can begin to help merchants tackle the ever-increasing PCI compliance budget challenges they face. 

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.