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Seems like Cisco has partnered with Cybertrust in creating some kind of PCI-geared hardware package / solution. Cybertrust is supposedly giving this amorphous hardware blob (I guess a hardware package can be customized for each scenario) the PCI checkmark. OK, so which company is going to purchase this package for its stores and tell its auditors, “we’re PCI complaint because we bought this crap”?

From their news release:

Part of the Cisco PCI Solution for Retail, a set of recommended and audited network architectures that can be tailored for each retailer’s specific store footprint and application needs, Cybertrust has provided its PCI subject matter expertise to validate that the Cisco solutions are optimized for PCI compliance. The Cisco PCI Solution architectures provide guidelines that help retailers manage the complexities associated with the PCI Data Security Standard.

Rrrrriiiiight….

Computerworld Australia warns against this as well.

Vet

I just found this security blog because the author put me in her blogroll, and Technorati let me know about it. The blog is titled Princess of Antiquity. It looks like the author is a 17 year old student in the Phillipines. It is kind of a mixed perosnal / security blog, with a heavy emphasis on security. There is some good stuff in there, and coming from a 17 year old, I have to say that this young lady has no where to go but up. And since she is linking to my blog, you know she is smart!

On a side note, technology is amazing to me sometimes. Even though I know the Internet is world wide and people can check out just about anything from anywhere., it still floors me when someone rom the Phillipines can find my blog. Too cool.

Vet