I agree, PCI is a stupid, idiotic standard but it does force some basic best practices.
But to think it's a fix is "whistling past the graveyard". Alex -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anton Chuvakin Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] The PCI sky *isn't* falling! > same answer: "I don't participate in security theater." I think this First, I am amazed how people so intelligent can hold opinions so shortsighted :-) I'd say that PCI DSS did more to information security than *anything else* since Windows added automated updates. Now, I've said it :-) But if you are looking for a proof of this, it is actually elsewhere: that mentioned "security theater" actually made people who were COMPLETELY ignoring security look at security - and then screw it up. And you know what? I think such motion from total ignorance to doing "a piss-poor job" of security represents a huge progress for such, mostly small, organizations. Now, some might say that my argument is of the type "Why do 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name?", but it is not. I am pretty sure that even companies that "do it just the auditor" or, worse, deceive their PCI assessor still gain a tiny fraction of risk reduction, both for themselves - and for the rest of us. -- Anton Chuvakin, Ph.D http://www.chuvakin.org http://chuvakin.blogspot.com http://www.info-secure.org _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
