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Why Should You Consider Switching Your PCI DSS Provider?

Posted by Stephanie Perry on 07 Jan 2021

Advantio joins the Elite List of PCI SSF Assessors

Posted by Stephanie Perry on 23 Dec 2020

Paving the Way for Learning and Growing Together in 2021

Posted by Marco Borza on 18 Dec 2020

A Definitive Guide to Cryptographic Key Blocks

Posted by David E. Acosta on 05 Nov 2020

2020 Payment Security Report

Posted by Marco Borza on 08 Oct 2020

Attacking Active Directory by LLMNR/NBSN

Attacking Active Directory by LLMNR/NBSN

Posted by Ero Rodriguez on 27 Aug 2020

Segmentation Testing for PCI DSS: everything you need to know

Posted by Carlo Di Dato on 04 Aug 2020

Vulnerability Management: Reassess & Conclusion

Vulnerability Management: Reassess & Conclusion

Posted by Giovanni Franco on 22 Jul 2020

Vulnerability Management: Act Stage

Vulnerability Management: Act Stage

Posted by Giovanni Franco on 14 Jul 2020

Security of POS Systems

Security of POS Systems

Posted by Hassen Trabelsi on 02 Jul 2020

The problem with Cloud WAF

The problem with Cloud WAF

Posted by Ero Rodriguez on 30 Jun 2020

Vulnerability Management: Assess & Prioritize

Vulnerability Management: Assess & Prioritize

Posted by Giovanni Franco on 26 Jun 2020

Completion of Magento 1.x support in June 2020 and its implications for PCI DSS compliance

Completion of Magento 1.x support in June 2020 and its implications for PCI DSS compliance

Posted by David E. Acosta on 24 Jun 2020

Vulnerability Management: Introduction & Prework

Vulnerability Management: Introduction & Prework

Posted by Giovanni Franco on 19 Jun 2020

Cyber Leadership Strategy: Technology

Cyber Leadership Strategy: Technology

Posted by Stephanie Perry on 16 Jun 2020

Cyber Leadership Strategy: Getting the Right Team

Cyber Leadership Strategy: Getting the Right Team

Posted by Stephanie Perry on 10 Jun 2020

Core Elements for your Cyber Strategy

Core Elements for your Cyber Strategy

Posted by Stephanie Perry on 03 Jun 2020

Introduction to Cyber Leadership Strategy

Introduction to Cyber Leadership Strategy

Posted by Stephanie Perry on 27 May 2020

OWASP 4.1: the importance of manual testing

OWASP 4.1: the importance of manual testing

Posted by Michael Caruso on 25 May 2020

DNS: The blind spot in the PCI DSS compliance strategy

DNS: The blind spot in the PCI DSS compliance strategy

Posted by David E. Acosta on 19 May 2020

PCI DSS: Remote vs. onsite assessments - Things to consider

PCI DSS: Remote vs. onsite assessments - Things to consider

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 07 May 2020

PCI DSS controls applicable to workstations that connect remotely to the CDE

PCI DSS controls applicable to workstations that connect remotely to the CDE

Posted by David E. Acosta on 01 May 2020

Hardware Security Module (HSM): What is it, and what is its role in protecting payment card data?

Hardware Security Module (HSM): What is it, and what is its role in protecting payment card data?

Posted by David E. Acosta on 23 Apr 2020

Safety is everyone's business. ISO 22301 standard analysis

Safety is everyone's business. ISO 22301 standard analysis

Posted by Eugenio Bonzi on 21 Apr 2020

Compliance as a service (CaaS)

Compliance as a service (CaaS)

Posted by Eugenio Bonzi on 14 Apr 2020

Changes from VISA as a response to COVID-19 pandemic

COVID19 – Visa amended Data Security Compliance program

Posted by Oleg Aksyonenko on 06 Apr 2020

Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)

PSD2 Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and PCI Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) compliance

Posted by Arturas Vegelius on 01 Apr 2020

How to protect against the Windows RCE Vulnerability

How to protect against the Windows RCE Vulnerability

Posted by Manfredi Blasucci on 24 Mar 2020

ISO/IEC 27701:2019

ISO/IEC 27701:2019: Are you ready for the new privacy information management standard?

Posted by Giovanni Franco on 24 Mar 2020

Resilience in pandemic times: ISO 22301

Resilience in pandemic times: what we can learn from ISO 22301

Posted by Eugenio Bonzi on 17 Mar 2020

PCI SSC guidelines during the coronavirus outbreak

Coronavirus (COVID-19): PCI SSC guidelines to minimize the impact of the pandemic

Posted by David E. Acosta on 13 Mar 2020

Wi_Fi security

PCI DSS and Wi-Fi security: how to protect your organization from hackers

Posted by Francesco Bianchino on 10 Mar 2020

7 critical areas in PCI DSS

Large-scale PCI DSS: the challenge of managing compliance in large organizations

Posted by David E. Acosta on 03 Mar 2020

PCI Card Production and Provisioning Logical and Physical Security Requirements - PCI CPP

Posted by Michael Caruso on 25 Feb 2020

What is ISO27001 and its benefits for a business

What is ISO27001 and how could it benefit my business?

Posted by Stephanie Perry on 04 Feb 2020

Advantio has been presented with PCI Award of Excellence 2020

Advantio wins PCI Award of Excellence as a recognized cyber security provider

Posted by Diana Tykhonenko on 24 Jan 2020

Threats Detection and Response in today’s Cyber Security Landscape

Posted by Francesco Consiglio on 14 Jan 2020

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PCI DSS and industry specifics: Issuers and Acquirers

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 23 Dec 2019

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Advantio is proud to announce its 10th anniversary as a leading cyber security consulting company

Posted by Diana Tykhonenko on 13 Dec 2019

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PCI DSS and industry specifics: Hospitality

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 27 Nov 2019

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PCI DSS and industry specifics: Retail

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 12 Nov 2019

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PCI Software Security Framework – a new approach to Payment Software Security.

Posted by Oleg Aksyonenko on 29 Oct 2019

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PCI DSS v4.0 - what's new and what to expect?

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 23 Oct 2019

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Meet Advantio at the 2019 Europe Community Meeting

Posted by Diana Tykhonenko on 08 Oct 2019

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PCI DSS and industry specifics: ATM environments case

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 03 Sep 2019

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Advantio is granted PCI SSC Qualified PIN Assessor Status

Posted by Diana Tykhonenko on 18 Jun 2019

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Advantio is certified as an Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) by PCI SSC.

Posted by Diana Tykhonenko on 27 May 2019

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Mobile payments with digital wallets and tokenization. How Google Pay, Apple Pay and Samsung Pay protect your card details.

Posted by David E. Acosta on 21 May 2019

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PCI 3D Secure in practice

Posted by Oleg Aksyonenko on 23 Apr 2019

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What hackers will do after breaking into your network

Posted by Serhii Puzyrko on 04 Apr 2019

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ASV Scans – Two of the most ambiguous points explained.

Posted by Alessandro Amalfitano on 19 Mar 2019

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Visa PIN Security Validation – Get to know the changes.

Posted by Oleg Aksyonenko on 05 Mar 2019

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Global Cyber Alliance and Mastercard launch their Cybersecurity Toolkit for small businesses.

Posted by Neira Jones on 26 Feb 2019

Best Practices for Maintaining PCI DSS Compliance - Advantio

The only constant is change: The new PCI Council information supplement and best practices for maintaining PCI DSS compliance.

Posted by David E. Acosta on 21 Feb 2019

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Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups attacks – a step into economics.

Posted by Serhii Puzyrko on 29 Jan 2019

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Protecting Telephone-Based Payment Card Data v.3.0 - What’s new and what’s changed?

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 09 Jan 2019

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A chain is as strong as its weakest link. It couldn’t be truer when it comes to information security.

Posted by Martin Petrov on 20 Nov 2018

How to choose penetration testing team Advantio

Choosing the right penetration testing team from PCI DSS perspective.

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 25 Oct 2018

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Meet Advantio at the 2018 Europe Community Meeting

Posted by Marco Borza on 11 Oct 2018

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Migrating your PCI DSS infrastructure to AWS

Posted by Francesco Consiglio on 09 Oct 2018

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PCI DSS Self-Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs) v3.2.1 – what has changed and how do you choose the right one(s).

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 25 Sep 2018

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WPA3 - What does the replacement of WPA2 mean?

Posted by Martin Petrov on 11 Sep 2018

Cyber security is everyone’s responsibility.

Posted by Marco Borza on 28 Aug 2018

Best practices for securing cardholder data in e-commerce environments.

Posted by Marco Borza on 14 Aug 2018

Advantio joins PCI Council’s Global Executive Assessor Roundtable (GEAR) to help advance payment security

Posted by Marco Borza on 07 Aug 2018

Point of sale devices

Top online scams that target businesses (and how to avoid them).

Posted by Marco Borza on 10 Jul 2018

Do your partners carry the same security levels as your business? Why it matters.

Posted by Marco Borza on 03 Jul 2018

Remain PCI DSS compliant: Migrate from SSL and Early TLS before June 30th 2018.

Posted by Marco Borza on 25 Jun 2018

Which PCI DSS SAQ is right for your business?

Posted by Marco Borza on 13 Jun 2018

Securing your payments in the age of cyber warfare.

Posted by Marco Borza on 15 May 2018

Security: the customer retention strategy you need to develop today.

Posted by Marco Borza on 01 May 2018

Avoiding the PR nightmare of information security threats

Posted by Marco Borza on 13 Mar 2018

How to increase cyber resilience in your business today

Posted by Marco Borza on 06 Mar 2018

Dealing with multiple merchants throws up a unique set of security concerns

Posted by Marco Borza on 27 Feb 2018

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How to prepare for a PCI audit

Posted by Marco Borza on 21 Feb 2018

Impressive stats from Visa Europe about Contactless Cards' usage growth

Posted by Igor Mancini on 27 Jan 2018

PCI DSS 3.2: Designated Entities Supplemental Validation

Posted by Marco Borza on 19 May 2016

Role of Penetration Testing in PCI DSS Requirement 11.3.4

Posted by Marco Borza on 27 Apr 2016

MasterCard Mandate: PoS to be contactless enabled by 2020

Posted by Igor Mancini on 16 Mar 2016

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How to show to the world that you are PCI DSS compliant

Posted by Marco Borza on 09 Mar 2016

Do you accept Card-Present payments? SAQ P2PE-HW might be for you.

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 19 Feb 2016

PCI DSS SAQ D for Merchants that store Cardholder Data electronically

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 26 Jan 2016

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Implement a Security Awareness Program with PCI DSS Requirement 12.6

Posted by Igor Mancini on 20 Jan 2016

SAQ C-VT for organizations using a Virtual Payment terminal solution

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 16 Dec 2015

Malware is a successful method to hack PoS and steal Customers Data

Posted by Igor Mancini on 09 Dec 2015

Is PCI DSS SAQ C right for you?

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 25 Nov 2015

Merchants must run recurrent PoS inspections

Posted by Marco Borza on 18 Nov 2015

PCI DSS Prioritized Approach

Posted by Igor Mancini on 16 Oct 2015

Contactless Payment Cards and Smart Payments: Benefits vs Risks.

Posted by Marco Borza on 09 Oct 2015

Protect your Payment Card when swiping it in Restaurants' Card Readers

Posted by Igor Mancini on 02 Oct 2015

Use of PoS, PED and standalone dial-out terminals will keep growing

Posted by Igor Mancini on 11 Sep 2015

PCI DSS Requirement 9.9: Protect POS devices and cardholder data

Posted by Marco Borza on 24 Jul 2015

Cyber Security risks for business using Standalone Dial-Out Terminals

Posted by Igor Mancini on 18 Jun 2015

Promote Security throughout your Software Design phase (SSDLC)

Posted by Francesco Consiglio on 21 May 2015

Understanding PCI DSS Self-Assessment Questionnaire B-IP.

Posted by Marco Borza on 07 May 2015

Is PCI DSS Self-Assessment Questionnaire B right for you?

Posted by Marco Borza on 16 Apr 2015

The scope of penetration testing is crucial to PCI DSS Compliance

Posted by Marco Borza on 14 Apr 2015

Secure Software Development Life Cycle requirements phase.

Posted by Igor Mancini on 31 Mar 2015

Protect hashed CardHolder Data according to PCI DSS 3.4

Posted by Irmantas Brazaitis on 27 Mar 2015

A closer look to PCI DSS Self-Assessment Questionnaire A

Posted by Marco Borza on 29 Jul 2014

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Who should use PCI DSS Self-Assessment Questionnaire A-EP (SAQ A-EP)?

Posted by Marco Borza on 23 May 2014

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Achieving and maintaining Compliance, the PCI DSS recurring tasks.

Posted by Marco Borza on 22 Apr 2014