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The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of industry regulations imposed by the major credit card companies to ensure the safety, security, and integrity of cardholder data. Any business that processes, stores, and transmits cardholder account data must comply with this complex new standard, and must be able to demonstrate that compliance through automated and manual audits of their systems. This white paper looks at the key challenges and requirements of PCI DSS as it relates to Microsoft Windows and Active Directory, and shows you how a third-party software solution can help with PCI compliance.
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A new IBM product tackles the problems associated with managing and reporting on metadata, which has implications for regulatory compliance, business intelligence, service-oriented architecture and data integration projects.
Metadata Workbench, available beginning this Thursday as an add-on to IBM’s Information Server data integration software, uses visualization tools to depict relationships among data sources and users, IBM says. The Workbench software also provides proof of data lineage needed to comply with many government regulations.
Metadata is information that describes the important attributes of data, such as where it came from, who created it, how it has been used and how it has changed. Businesses waste many hours in meetings trying to ensure everyone has a common understanding of the meanings of terms used in metadata, says Sean Crowley, IBM’s Information Server market manager.
“Metadata really is one of the dirtier aspects of information integration,” Crowley says.
A business might refer to customer information in one database with the phrase “customer ID,” and put the same information under the phrase “customer account number” in another database. This creates confusion.
The IBM Information Server has a metadata repository that allows users to define key terms and taxonomies, create links between business and technical terms, and define stewardship over each data set.
Metadata Workbench is placed on top of this repository and provides Web-based access to visual representations of metadata generated and used by the Information Server. One type of visualization would look at the stages of an information integration job, such as an ETL (extract, transform, load) workflow.
IT staffs could use Workbench to assess the impact of changes such as the retirement of a legacy data source, Crowley says. Before getting rid of a database, executives would want to know how it relates to business processes and business intelligence, he says. Workbench depicts the relationships sources of information have to the places where information is used, even if it spans different tools and technologies.
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