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Adrian Lane

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Adrian Lane is a Security Strategist and brings over 25 years of industry experience to the Securosis team, much of it at the executive level. Adrian specializes in database security, data security, and secure software development. With experience at Ingres, Oracle, and Unisys, he has extensive experience in the vendor community, but brings a pragmatic perspective to selecting and deploying technologies having worked on "the other side" as CIO in the finance vertical. Prior to joining Securosis, Adrian served as the CTO/VP at companies such as IPLocks, Touchpoint, CPMi and Transactor/Brodia. He has been invited to present at dozens of security conferences, contributed articles to many major publications, and is easily recognizable by his "network hair" and propensity to wear loud colors.
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posted in April 2010

PCI: Data Token Alternatives

4/20/2010
When a merchant cannot -- or will not -- replace credit card numbers with tokens provided by its payment processor, how does it secure it database to be PCI-compliant?
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PCI Database Security Primer

4/6/2010
I have written a lot about compliance in that past three months, but most of the guidance has been generic. Now I want to talk about database security specifically in relation to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, and consider compliance more from an architectural standpoint as opposed to a tools- or policy-based perspective.
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