PCI Council Releases PCI-DSS Cloud Computing Guidelines
February 22, 2015
Grazed from LawBlogs. Author: Mike Nonaka.
On February 7, 2013, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) council released a supplement to the payment card industry data security standards (PCI-DSS) on the use of cloud technologies and considerations for maintaining PCI DSS controls in cloud environments. The supplement is intended for merchants, service providers, assessors, and other entities in evaluating the use of cloud computing in the context of PCI DSS.
The supplement considers “cloud computing” to mean a model for enabling on-demand network access to a shared pool of computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or cloud provider interaction…
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