If the issue is the open winbox port on the router, you could firewall it to only allow traffic in frok your office or management network. So it would appear closed to resr of internet but srill give you access. Or set up a private management IP. On Oct 28, 2015 2:54 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have always heard of PCI compliance in terms of a business like a gas > station where customers swipe cards at the pumps. > > But I have a customer with a credit card reader terminal in their office > that is making this big fuss because they annually do a PCI audit > apparently to avoid a $20/month fee from their credit card processor. > Maybe I don't even realize we pay that, there is some $200/year PCI > compliance fee we pay. > > Anyway, this is not where some auditors show up, but rather a cloud based > scan they run from one of their computers until they pass, then they print > out the report and send it in. > > And apparently the customer decided to have us replace Frontier and then > do their annual scan the next day. They claim they passed every year > previous, hard to believe the Frontier modem they were using as their > router having username/password set to admin/admin was not an issue. Their > first complaint to us was their WiFi password was not complex enough. > Well, we just set it to what you were already using. Then they had some > complaint about DNS. > > Now they are saying they have to report that we manage the router > remotely, and that may be a problem. Is it? We close off everything but > Winbox. It seems a lot more secure to me than having a web interface with > admin/admin. I told the customer they are welcome to supply and manage > their own router, but if they get a leased, managed router from us, well > ... we manage it. Remotely. > > Has anyone dealt with this issue already? > >
