The Retailer's Guide to Becoming and Remaining PCI Compliant

Control and Governance
It's imperative to the PCI compliance and security reporting process that retail organizations maintain a thorough real-time inventory of all business endpoints, as well as remaining in control of those endpoints from a security perspective. By using a "positive" security solution that can map to the company's business process, a known good is established (i.e., essentially an inventory of known trusted applications that can run or execute on an individual endpoint).