Part of managing system compliance is ensuring that each system meets a minimum standard. Beyond this relatively straightforward component of the process, almost every compliance process includes other ongoing tasks, including risk assessment and configuration management.
What is configuration management, exactly? These compliance frameworks will often refer to it, but implementing a management policy is entirely different.
The public and private sectors have been increasingly under assault by hackers looking to take information–whether for espionage, blackmail, or profit. And while some of the past few years’ high-profile government and industrial attacks have been at the center of many cybersecurity stories, the reality is that hacks in the retail and consumer spaces have been incredibly impactful.
In fact, some of the largest data breaches have been due, in part, to a lack of compliance with PCI DSS standards… and this presents a major challenge for merchants and payment processors who want to protect their customers’ information.
Here, we’ll cover three major security breaches related to PCI DSS compliance and what you can learn from them.
It’s not always the case that software development companies worry about quality assurance to such a degree that they consider it a matter of compliance. And yet, enterprises building critical software in heavily regulated environments or industries understand very well that quality assurance is part of the business. This is why the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published the 9000 series, including ISO 90003, for quality assurance in software.
Here, we break down some of the basic principles of Quality Management Systems and why you might consider compliance for your software development projects.