Stickman Cybersecurity by Design

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) refers to the security standards that ensure all organisations accepting, transmitting, storing, and processing credit card information have a secure environment. The Standard is managed and administered by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), an independent body formed by the major card brands, namely JCB, MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express. PCI DSS compliance in Australia applies to all merchants processing or transmitting credit card data, regardless of their business type or size and is designed to protect both the merchant and customer, from any data breach. If your business accepts and processes card payments, it’s important you are meeting the PCI DSS compliance requirements in Australia. A convenient way to ensure this, is to hire a certified PCI DSS Qualified Security Assessor (QSA), whose knowledge and expertise can easily help identify any compliance gaps and minimise your

Organisations are continually at risk of security breaches and cyber attacks, through deficits in their own systems, people and processes and potential vulnerabilities in their environment that are leaving them exposed to malicious threat actors. Preventing breaches and attacks is the first step to ensuring the safety and security of everyone in your workplace, and that of your customers’. An IT Security Consultant can help you determine what you need to do and can recommend the right solutions to safeguard your systems   (software, and hardware), and identify and remediate any vulnerabilities in your networks and business processes. When hiring a consultant, these guidelines will help you ensure you get the quality and service your business requires: 1.    Experience – A cybersecurity company with extensive experience in providing  IT security consultancy  will have the supporting credentials and qualifications to verify their authenticity. These are generally displayed on thei

The vulnerabilities in existing systems and IT ecosystems are growing at a phenomenal rate. This is after the revolutionary growth of technology. In this context, penetration testing has proven to be quite useful and productive.  What is penetration testing?   The purpose of penetration testing is not to identify vulnerabilities but rather exploit the gaps and the defects existing in the current system.  How does it work? In this process, tests are run to bring forth defects in the system. The tests cover different aspects of the system, starting from end-user flawed handling of the system to inappropriate configuration and fault in the operating systems. Penetration testing comprises of two components – internal and external. While the purpose of the internal test is to pre-empt potential damage when an internal stakeholder tries to access data and sources that can cause harm to the system; the external is more to do with the assessment of the system to understand the gaps exi