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Guam PCI DSS Compliance
Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standard
Many of iCON Guam web design company's customers require PCI DSS compliant servers. Two of our servers are certified as being PCI DSS compliant by an independent outside certification organization. Naturally, there was some skepticism on our part as to the legitimacy of the demands being made. In fact, some of the requests that we are required to fulfill are not pertinent to any applications currently being maintained on our servers. On some levels, the PCI DSS compliance standards may seem to be overkill or even pointless. But we understand that compliance cannot be customized for each development being tested. This is why our servers are now in full compliance.
What we were not expecting were some very welcome side-effects that we have experienced as a result of meeting these standards. Although it is the intent of the compliance standard to help secure data transmissions for payment cards, it also helps secure all SSL and TLS connections as well as others.
Moving forward into 2009 and beyond, we anticipate the need for even stronger measures to combat the potential increase in hacker attempts, DOS (denial of service attacks) and other threats that are sure to be elevated in their intensity as a result of the financial downturn.
Now we are completely sold on the idea of PCI DSS Compliance and all forms of advanced server security. Through all of the mandatory server validation episodes, we have become quite astute with the skills and knowledge required to make our servers pass these and other security scrutiny tests.
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