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100,000 people love this site

Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Today I checked the blog stats page and it seems we just broke the 100,000 views mark.  This is the number of people who love this since since we moved from the Wordpress.com site.  Readership is growing in both the ...

Aegis Newsletter

Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

If you did not read it, check out the December Aegis newsletter. You can also get this via email here. Topics included: Addition of regulatory compliance forum - so far there has been discussions on Minnesota Plastic Card Security Act, FACTA, ...

Forum updated

Saturday, January 12th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

We have updated the forum software, which we do regularly, to prevent attacks and be good security people like we should. We do this periodically with no visible difference, but like to think it's a nice reminder of PCI ...

Facebook PCI Group

Friday, December 28th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Dare I say there is a Facebook PCI group? I wonder how many people use Facebook and what such a group could discuss/accomplish.  I use it as a place to post quick links that I want to share, but don't care ...

Housekeeping holidays

Monday, December 10th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Little is happening here around the holidays. It seems the retailers and other merchants have rolled up their work rugs and rolled out the red carpet to customers for the greatest spending spree of the year. I know ...

PCI will not bake you bread

Sunday, November 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

One of the eternal issues people raise about PCI is that it is not perfect. People point out flaws, which are then corrected or explained through interpretation. But this is normal and fully expected. It's when people ...

Housekeeping and Resource page updates

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Just a few housekeeping items. I've updated the Resource page, with a link to the Treasury Institute for Higher Education resource library. Walt Conway has done a great job with the library and his blog. The forum is really gaining critical ...

Have you discovered Hackistan?

Monday, July 9th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized, Vendors | 1 Comment »

That's right, Hackistan! In a viral marketing effort to bring attention to the problem of application security, Fortify Software has developed the website Discover Hackistan and all the hoopla that goes with it. They have a blog, news ...

administravia

Sunday, July 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Just a note and FYI.  Jeff commented that he could not find a link to the forum on the newly designed website, which is correct.  I fixed this and now there's a link to the forum and the (not so ...

PCI Answers partners with The Aegenis Group

Monday, July 2nd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

I now work for The Aegenis Group, a company that is also dedicated to demystifying the PCI process. One of the back office projects has been to migrate this blog and other projects to better align with the corporate ...