After nearly 20 years of operation, the PCI Security Standards Council published its first annual report. It is a surprisingly revealing look at where payment security is headed, from product family restructuring and standards consolidation to AI guidance and global expansion.
A questions I hear often is: “How do we manage PCI Compliance for containers when they’re destroyed and recreated constantly?”
It’s a legitimate concern. In this post I write about file integrity monitoring when containerization is used (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes, etc) Traditional FIM tools were built for static servers that run for months or years. But containers? They live for minutes, hours, maybe days.
The PCI-DSS standard doesn’t give you a pass just because you’re using modern infrastructure. Requirement 11.5.2 still applies, you still need to detect unauthorized file modifications. The approach just looks completely different.
The Invisible Game Within the Game # Yesterday, while millions watched the Patriots and Seahawks battle for championship glory at Levi’s Stadium, another high-stakes game played out in milliseconds beneath the surface. This game processed $20.2 billion in transactions with 99.99% reliability, involved seven different players per transaction, and executed each play in under 200 milliseconds.
Welcome to the payment card ecosystem’s Super Bowl,where 213.1 million Americans participated, spending an average of $94.77 each, and where the stakes are measured not in yards gained, but in billions of dollars secured.