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In today’s complex and constantly evolving regulatory environment, businesses face an ever-growing array of compliance requirements across multiple frameworks ranging from FedRAMP, PCI, ISO, GDPR, and HIPAA, to name a few. Navigating these compliance waters is increasingly challenging, particularly with regards to cybersecurity and data protection. However, there are measures you can take to significantly refine your compliance processes. In this article, we will explore how streamlining all of your compliance efforts with a single trusted provider can not only simplify your processes but also enhance your overall security posture.

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol that encrypts data, authenticates connections, and protects the data in transmission. As time passes, new versions of TLS are released to strengthen defenses and maintain an advantage of the constantly evolving threat landscape. Understanding these updates is essential for anyone managing secure systems or handling sensitive data online.

In our digital economy, online shopping has become second nature for consumers worldwide. Yet behind the seamless checkout experiences that we've come to expect lies a complex security challenge that merchants must navigate. With the rise of e-commerce payment processing comes the rise in threats from e-skimming attacks.

Given today’s continually evolving threat landscape, strengthening access controls is an essential element and growing priority of any robust security program. As such, it’s no surprise multi-factor authentication (MFA) has become a widely adopted compliance requirement by a significant number of security standards across industries. That said, it can be difficult to understand the intricacies of the MFA regulations for each compliance framework.

Across the current digital economy, more and more are going passwordless—with tech conglomerates like Apple, Microsoft, and Google leading the way, organizations are pivoting to other cybersecurity solutions to better secure information and simplify workflows. But replacing passwords with alternatives successfully also means accounting for extended related factors—including those that could impact your PCI DSS compliance.

Scoping is a key first step in any compliance assessment, and those who have been through the process understand how vital—and how tricky—it can be. Scoping is particularly crucial in PCI DSS, as drawing your boundaries largely determines which requirements your organization must satisfy, and when you’re operating within a Zero Trust environment, things appear to get more complicated.

Though so much attention has been placed on secure coding to mitigate cyber threats to software, another emerging area of focus is the “software supply chain,” or the “software bill of materials” (SBOM). Why? Because software security doesn’t just depend on secure coding—the individual components of the software, or the SBOM—are equally critical.

Historically, PCI DSS has treated most service accounts as shared administrator accounts that had to be authorized with specific privileges using strong authentication factors. But now, version 4.0 of the PCI DSS has greatly expanded the scope of authentication and authorization requirements—while you’ll still need to secure those administrator accounts, you’ll now also need to implement controls to protect any application and service accounts in your environment.