On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:13:28 -0500, Hal Merritt <[email protected]> wrote:

>VPN is a good solution, but not PCI compliant. You shouldn't have sensitive
data flowing over a network in the open. Period. You would use VPN to gain
access to the network, but layer another solution such as TLS on top.

I don't understand that comment, Hal.  VPN technology and solutions
certainly include encryption of the data that flows over the network.  You
don't need TLS or SSH or some other added encryption on top of it.

-- 
Walt Farrell, CISSP
IBM STSM, z/OS Security Design

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