SNHU Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Paper

Prompt

In Module Two, you were introduced to Fertilizer Plus and its IT environment. The company’s senior management has recently decided to accept credit card payments from its customers, both from store locations and online transactions. This decision makes meeting PCI DSS objectives and requirements a necessary consideration in order to validate compliance for enforcement organizations. As an IT professional at the company, you are asked to identify appropriate best practices for PCI DSS, specific to the company’s IT environment, and make recommendations to IT management.

Here are your tasks:

1. Identify the interactions between the objectives and requirements of PCI DSS and Fertilizer Plus’s IT environment.
2. Determine appropriate best practices to implement when taking steps to meet PCI DSS objectives and requirements.
3. Prepare a brief report of your findings for IT management to review.