I think this depends largely on what level of PCI Compliance you are aiming
for [1]. Also, it depends on the PCI-DSS version you are working with.

As for a CDN claiming PCI Compliance, I don't believe any CDNs make such
claims (with the exception of RackSpace, but they are a hosting provider
more than a CDN) 

And protection against haching of the JS files at the source? I'm not quite
sure what that means. Are you asking if the source files can be modified by
someone prior to them being sent to you? The answer would be, yes - someone
at google or MS could modify the files, however - they wouldn't, not without
expecting large law-suits from lots of customers.

You could be subject to MiTM and DNS Cache Poisoning attacks on your
servers, that could allow an attacker to represent themselves as cdn.google
or cdn.ms or whatever other cdn you might use - so to mitigate this you can
(and should) make all of your sensitive areas of your application require
SSL - the upstream requests to your CDN should also use SSL, if the cert is
invalid it will warn your users before the script is downloaded to their
browser. 


On 3/8/11 5:26 PM, "jkane001" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> We run a website that deals with personal data, credit card, info,
> etc., and we are working toward PCI Compliance.  We are thinking of
> using a CDN (Google or MS), but our concern is security of externally
> loaded JS files.
> 
> 1) Does the Google CDN claim PCI Compliance?
> 2) Is there any protection against hacking of the JS files at the
> source?
> 
> Thanks!
> J


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