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PCI SAQ DEFINITION

The PCI Data Security Standard Self Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) is a validation tool intended to assist merchants and service providers who are permitted by the payment brands to self-evaluate their compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

The questionnaire consists of a set of 12 security requirements sub-divided into 6 broader sections - with each section targeting a specific area of security from the PCI Data Security Standard. All sections must be completed. Completing a Self-Assessment Questionnaire helps online merchants evaluate their security practices and plan compliance with the required PCI Data Security Standard. Further, completing the required SAQ - gives others, such as their Acquiring Bank, the necessary evidence that they are in Compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard.

There are 9 different versions of the self assessment questionnaire. The version that your organization will need to complete depends on how your company handles credit card data - this is called your 'Validation Type'. For some merchants, the appropriate questionnaire is short and simple, while for others it is long and technical. The first five or six questions in the compliance wizard will quickly determine your company's validation type then automatically begin the appropriate questionnaire.

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The Comodo ONE IT operating platform helps you operate more efficiently with comprehensive remote management, monitoring and support of all your endpoints and devices for proactive hands-on remote management from a single page of glass. Included are Windows Event Logs and applications that are critical to monitor operations, network performance, and security.

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When most people think of a service desk, they think it can only be used for international companies or those that have branches in other countries. However, the term itself just means that no matter where you are in the world, you get the same services as traditional desks can provide. At Comodo, we understand the need to provide flexibility and choice to your agents and customers, and offer our service desk software free of charge. Anyone can use it, no matter where you work, where your branches are located or how big/small you are.

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Most people are unaware that open source just means that it is freely available to everyone and can be modified and redistributed. There are many free options on the market, but for patch management, most require a monthly fee. At Comodo, we believe that every computer and server network should be safe from threats and problems, so we offer our product free of charge, among others. There are many benefits to this way of doing things, including:

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Build a New, Secured India with Comodo Cyber Security:

Special Independence Day Offers

Comodo, world's leading SSL brand, comes up with some great offers to celebrate 70 years of India's independence.

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The security assessment questionnaire (SAQ) consists of 12 security requirements sub-divided into 6 broader sections. All sections must be completed. Moreover, there are 9 different versions of the self-assessment questionnaire. The version online merchants need to complete depends on how they handle the credit card data.

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Organizations, nonetheless the size, POS vendors, financial institutions and software developers who create and operate the global platform for processing payments to handle card holder data are liable to comply with PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). The PCI DSS provides data security standards to assist merchants implement and process the security policies standards to protect their payment systems from data theft and corporate security breaches. The compliance standards ensures business merchants and service providers to establish a secure platform for payment solutions.

The card holder data are to surpass an audit and the business merchants of companies are to bespeak compliance with PCI standards. Self Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) is one type of audit that applies with simple cardholder data environments which is completed by a business merchant or a service provider.

The PCI DSS Self Assessment Questionnaire is a tool to help business merchants and service providers validate in their level on PCI DSS Compliance through self assessment, in correspondence to payment brands..

Which SAQ best applies to your organisation? The type of Self Assessment Questionnaire depends on the type of organization and on what type of transaction the merchant deals with.

SAQ A: Implied when the business merchants outsource the card holder data functions to a third party service provider.

SAQ A-EP: Implied when E-commerce merchants who takes control of the website administration of the payment links and outsource their payment

SAQ B: Implied for call-out merchants and the business that do not involve any electronic cardholder data storage.

SAQ B-IP: This is applied to merchants who handle PEDs which has the ability to function independently of any other hardware or software and are connected to the processor through IP connection.

SAQ C-VT: Business that does not deal with electronic cardholder data storage that use virtual terminals for processing payments.

SAQ C: Merchants who process application-based payments through the internet with no electronic card holder information storage.

SAQ D: Merchant who are not eligible to take up Self Assessment Questionnaire types A and C.

SAQ P2PE-HW: Merchants with no electronic card data storage and who are involved with payment processed through hardware payment terminals are eligible to take up this particular type of Self Assessment Questionnaire.

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How to check patch status and deploy selected patches to devices

Step 1: Open ITSM and click ‘Devices’ > ‘Device List’. Click on your target device and open the ‘Patch Management’ tab. This will list all patches available for the device. The column on the far right tells you whether the patch is installed, or available for installation. The importance of the patch is shown in the ‘Severity’ column’

Step 2: Optional. Click the funnel icon on the right to filter patches based on name, install status, severity and other criteria.

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At a time when all kinds of mobile devices are used to connect to enterprise networks, it becomes important that these devices are monitored and managed. Companies now realize that there are complex challenges with maintaining mobility. Mobile Device Management (MDM) is a term used to refer to the software that can help with managing all the devices in your business. We can define MDM as a security-based software used to track, manage and safeguard mobile devices of a company's workforce when deployed across multiple mobile service providers and operating systems.

Benefits of Mobile Device Management

Mobile Device Management helps companies/organizations reduce mobility challenges and minimize security threats/issues as well. MDM becomes highly important since it helps protect data from being stolen. (This includes corporate data as well as sensitive personal data of customers). MDM facilitates organizations to support corporate related programs on mobile gadgets like tablets, and smartphones that are meant for personal use by executing strict security policies to nourish and manage IT control over multiple platforms.