Credit Cards and Oracle Applications: Security and PCI Compliance Issues

Credit card data breaches are headline news, thus organizations must properly protect credit card data or risk being tomorrow's headline. Oracle Applications implementations that "store, process, or transmit cardholder data" must comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standards regardless of size or transaction volume. PCI is focused on securely handling cardholder data, but also has a significant emphasis on general IT security. The difficultly with Oracle Applications and achieving PCI compliance is that even though credit card processing may be only a one minor feature, the entire application installation must be fully PCI compliant due to the tight-integration and data model of Oracle Applications. This presentation will review the credit card processing within Oracle Applications and will provide general guidance for Oracle Applications implementations on securing cardholder data and complying with relevant PCI requirements.

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