Putting the ‘i’ Back Into PCI
January 9, 2008 Alex Woodie
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When the folks at the major credit card companies created the Payment Card Industry (PCI) a few years back, they defined the information security specifications using terms and architectures they were most familiar with. As it turned out, that meant Windows and Unix. After some analysis by customers of IBM and IBM engineers, the PCI specification was updated to reflect two other architectures prevalent among retailers: System i and System z. Before he left IBM to found Group8 Security last month, Pat Botz worked with several groups involved in security, including a stint as security architect for i5/OS (formerly OS/400), |
