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PCI DSS v4.0 on AWS Compliance Guide now available

Post Syndicated from Ted Tanner original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/pci-dss-v4-0-on-aws-compliance-guide-now-available/

Our mission at AWS Security Assurance Services is to ease Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. We work closely with AWS customers to answer their questions about understanding compliance on the AWS Cloud, finding and implementing solutions, and optimizing their controls and assessments. The most frequent and foundational questions have been compiled to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0 on AWS Compliance Guide. The guide is an overview of concepts and principles to help customers build PCI DSS–compliant applications and adhere to the updated version 4.0 requirements. Each section is thoroughly referenced to source AWS documentation, to support PCI DSS reporting requirements. The guide includes AWS best practices and technologies and updates that are applicable to the new PCI DSS v4.0 requirements.

The guide helps customers who are developing payment applications, compliance teams that are preparing to manage assessments of cloud applications, internal assessment teams, and PCI Qualified Security Assessors (QSA) supporting customers who use AWS.

What’s in the guide?

The objective of the guide is to provide customers with the information they need to plan for and document the PCI DSS compliance of their AWS workloads.

The guide includes:

  1. The Shared Responsibility Model and its impact on PCI DSS requirements
  2. What the AWS PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider status means for customers
  3. Scoping your cardholder data environment
  4. Required diagrams for assessments
  5. Requirement-by-requirement guidance

The guide is most useful for people who are developing solutions on AWS, but it also will help QSAs, internal security assessors (ISAs), and internal audit teams better understand the assessment of cloud applications. It provides examples of the diagrams required for assessments and includes links to AWS source documentation to support assessment evidence requirements.

Compliance at cloud scale

More customers than ever are running PCI DSS–compliant workloads on AWS, with thousands of compliant applications. New security and governance tools available from AWS and the AWS Partner Network (APN) enable building business-as-usual compliance and automated security tasks so you can shift your focus to scaling and innovating your business.

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Ted Tanner

Ted Tanner

Ted is a Principal Assurance Consultant and PCI DSS QSA with AWS Security Assurance Services, and has more than 25 years of IT, security, and compliance experience. He leverages this to provide AWS customers with guidance on compliance and security in the cloud, and how to build and optimize their cloud compliance programs. He is co-author of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v3.2.1 on AWS Compliance Guide and this v4.0 edition, and the Architecting for PCI DSS Segmentation and Scoping on AWS whitepaper.

Sana Rahman

Sana Rahman

Sana is a Senior Assurance Consultant with AWS Security Assurance Services, and has been a PCI DSS Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) for 8 years. She has extensive knowledge and experience in information security and governance, and deep compliance knowledge in both cloud and hybrid environments. She uses all of this to remove compliance roadblocks for AWS customers and provide guidance in their cloud journey.

Rughved Gadgil

Rughved Gadgil

Rughved is a Senior Solutions Architect with WWCS Enterprise Canada team and excels at using his technical expertise to remove technical hurdles for customers on their cloud adoption journey. He holds five different AWS certifications, and previously worked as a DevOps Specialist for a major airline. He has a keen interest in security and compliance, and is continuously expanding his knowledge and skillsets across the evolving cloud security landscape.

Updated whitepaper available: Architecting for PCI DSS Segmentation and Scoping on AWS

Post Syndicated from Ted Tanner original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/updated-whitepaper-available-architecting-for-pci-dss-segmentation-and-scoping-on-aws/

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has re-published the whitepaper Architecting for PCI DSS Scoping and Segmentation on AWS to provide guidance on how to properly define the scope of your Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) workloads that are running in the AWS Cloud. The whitepaper has been refreshed to include updated AWS best practices and technologies, and updates that are applicable to the new PCI DSS v4.0 requirements. The whitepaper looks at how to define segmentation boundaries between your in-scope and out-of-scope resources by using cloud-based AWS services.

The whitepaper is intended for engineers and solution builders, but it also serves as a guide for Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) and internal security assessors (ISAs) to better understand the different segmentation controls that are available within AWS products and services, along with associated scoping considerations.

Compared to on-premises environments, software-defined networking on AWS transforms the scoping process for applications by providing additional segmentation controls beyond network segmentation. Thoughtful design of your applications and selection of security-impacting services for implementing your required controls can reduce the number of systems and services in your cardholder data environment (CDE).

The whitepaper is based on the PCI Council’s Information Supplement: Guidance for PCI DSS Scoping and Network Segmentation.

 
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Ted Tanner

Ted Tanner

Ted is a Principal Assurance Consultant and PCI DSS Qualified Security Assessor with AWS Security Assurance Services, and has more than 25 years of IT and security experience. He uses this experience to provide AWS customers with guidance on compliance and security, and on building and optimizing their cloud compliance programs. He is co-author of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v3.2.1 on AWS Compliance Guide and the soon-to-be-released v4.0 edition.

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Avik Mukherjee

Avik is a Senior Security Consultant with more than 15 years of experience in IT governance, security, risk, and compliance. He has background of being a QSA for PCI DSS and point-to-point encryption (P2PE) and has deep knowledge of security advisory and assessment work in various industries, including retail, financial, and technology.

Joseph Okonkwo

Joseph Okonkwo

Joseph is a Senior Security Architect and PCI DSS Professional (PCIP), and has more than a decade of experience in application security, security architecture, and as an Internal Security Assessor (ISA). He works closely with AWS clients to enable digital transformation and migration in the Professional Services team. Joseph earned an MBA from Imperial College, Business School, and a M.S. in Data Telecommunications & Networks from The University of Salford in Manchester.