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In connection with the expected soon release of the renovated version of the standard PCI DSS the correspondent the periodical “[PLAS]” met with the representatives of the international consultationalservice company Of Sysnet, which specializes in questions of providing Information Security and which leads its activity in a whole series of regions of the world, including the CIS. Thus, in 2008. company opened its representation in Kiev. In the course of conversation we asked Duff, commercial director of the company Of Sysnet on the region of the CIS, to describe, what concrete successes in the process of introduction PCI DSS were achieved at the given moment by participants in the industry, and to also give useful advice to those of them, who thus far yet did not hurry to carry out any real steps in this direction, but it desires to make up that missed.
The positive moment of present situation consists in the fact that recently presented by council for the standards of safety of the industry of pay maps (PCI Of security Of standards Of council) the survey of the forthcoming changes in the standard PCI DSS (version 1.2 ) does not provide for the introduction of any serious new requirements in addition to that to already existing of twelve, which act originally. It should be noted that the release of the reviewed version PCI DSS is accomplished in complete agreement with the originally matched process of the life cycle of the standard, which provides for its revision and renovation with the periodicity of times in two years. As notes PCI Of security Of standards Of council, basic changes in version 1.2 are explanations and commentaries to the existing
requirements.
Vivian Duff - the business manager of the company Of Sysnet in the region of the CIS. It answers for the development of the business relations between Sysnet and by its bank- partners in this region. Vivian Duff - experimental manager with the rich experiment in the area of the assignment of the services of the estimation of Information Security.
Took active part in the realization of a number of projects with respect to the guarantee of a correspondence to the International standards PCI DSS and ISO 27001,including the projects of the state structures of Ireland, such as Defence Ministry, main controlling- financial administration, the commission for tax administration,control of national roads, the projects of several large banks, including of the First Ukrainian International Bank ([FUIB]), UkrEximBank, Nadra bank, and also the projects of companies, including OpenWay, Elavon financial services and others.
From the moment of its appointment to a post of the commercial director of the company Of Sysnet Vivian Duff became the key initiator of the development of the business connections of company abroad, as a result of which it established close partner relations with the local banks, the service providers and the commercial- service enterprises in more than 24 countries of region CEMEA.
On the initiative Vivian Duff was created the office of Sysnet in Kiev and the command from the local specialists and the consultants in questions of Information Security, which provides the demands of the banks, which lead their activity in this rapidly developed region and rendering services with the support of the Russian language was formed.
Because of the designation to the key positions of experienced specialists the company Of Sysnet attained an exuberance in the quantity of clients from the number of banks, which made the decision to use resources Of Sysnet for purposes of the guarantee of a correspondence of their structures to the requirements of the standard PCI DSS. Vivian Duff is solidly confident, that status of the independent provider of the services of Sysnet and its adherence to the interests of clients is key to the present and future success of company in this region.
In the forseeable future Vivian Duff assumes the creation one additional foreign office of company,which will be located in Moscow. Its tasks they will become control of the support of the growing number of clients, who need the international consultational experience Of Sysnet, for the rendering by them of effective aid in the guarantee of a correspondence to contemporary requirements in the region of providing Information Security of banking sector and pay systems.
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