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Chris Mark
Principal Consultant,
Mark Consulting Group
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Payment security and PCI DSS specialist. One of the original members of the team that worked with Visa to rewrite the CISP (now PCI DSS) in 2001. Founded a QSA firm and conducted or managed over 100 assessments from 2002 ...
Payment security and PCI DSS specialist. One of the original members of the team that worked with Visa to rewrite the CISP (now PCI DSS) in 2001. Founded a QSA firm and conducted or managed over 100 assessments from 2002 until 2004. Former MasterCard SDP team member and Original member of PCI SSC. Former QSA trainer who trained over 2,800 QSAs worldwide from 2007-2009. From January 2007 - Sept 2009 was the Visa Inc. CISP trainer responsible for training over 10,000 people worldwide on PCI DSS and related topics. Creator of the CPISM and CPISA certifications. Published numerous articles and have spoken at scores of events on the topic of PCI DSS, and payment card security.
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Feb. 2, 2011
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How can I be PCI DSS compliant?
There are two components to the program. 1) compliance and 2) validation. Compliance is really nothing more than a "state of being". You either are or are not compliant. In the PCI DSS world there is no middle ground. That being said there is a ... more
