Who does PCI compliance apply to?
The PCI DSS applies to all entities that store, process, and/or transmit cardholder data. It covers technical and operational system components included in or connected to cardholder data. If you are a merchant who accepts or processes payment cards, you must comply with the PCI DSS.
Should developers have read access to production databases?
No. Developers should not have access to production database systems for the following reasons: Availability and Performance: Having read-only rights to a database is not harmless.
Should developers have production access?
Answer: Everyone agrees that developers should never have access to production… Unless they’re the developer, in which case it’s different. Problems in production can be fixed much faster if developers can see the logs, stack traces and core dumps and look at production data when something goes wrong.
What if you are not PCI compliant?
If your business doesn’t meet the PCI standards for compliance and the security of cardholder data is compromised, you are liable – and could end up paying thousands of dollars in fines. Some of the additional liabilities and fines include: All fraud losses incurred from the use of compromised account numbers.
What data falls under PCI compliance?
The PCI DSS provides standards for the processes and systems that merchants and vendors use to protect information. This information includes: Cardholder data such as the cardholder’s name, the primary account number, and the card’s expiration date and security code.
Can a VPS be used for PCI compliance?
Using VPS/virtualisation is a great way to securely partition up a physical server and still maintain PCI compliance without falling under the “a machine for each role” rule. Here is the issue with this particular item. When evaluated on wording alone it seems clear, that different people are required for different environments.
What are the requirements for PCI DSS 6.4?
PCI DSS requirement 6.4.2 separation of duties between development/test environments
What should be included in a production database?
Security: Your production database may contain sensitive information like: Only those who absolutely need access to this information should have it. In a well-organized company, developers are not among those people. Furthermore, your company will fail PCI and SOX compliance if its developers can access production systems with this data.
Can a developer have access to a production system?
Yes. Developers should have access to production systems. At my company we have four teams that deal with production databases. They are: Developers, who design and write the schema and code for the databases. They have no access to the databases in production.