The Retailer's Guide to Becoming and Remaining PCI Compliant

The key behind identifying critical change is that it can greatly narrow the scope of ensuring the security and compliance aspects of PCI. Controlled change enables organizations to collect and track all compelling in-scope affected assets and analyze critical change on the front end. Up-front filtering also helps provide relevant and required data for auditors and assessors who need to demonstrate security control effectiveness up to the retail board or audit committee. During assessment validation, and especially during a forensics investigation, change events that focus on the business process can save vast amounts of time and money when the data is ready and waiting without the need to mine it out of the repository and filter after the fact.