Computerworld - Jaikumar Vijayan, 08/20/2008

The group that administers the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard — or PCI, for short — this week released a summary of the changes that are being made to the requirements in a revision scheduled to be published in October.

As expected, the modifications that the PCI Security Standards Council is implementing in the upcoming Version 1.2 of the standard are largely incremental in nature and appear unlikely to cause any major new compliance challenges for companies, analysts said. In fact, the update will ease some of the mandates set by the standard, such as how quickly software patches need to be applied to systems.

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