PCI Requirement 8.2.1 – Use Strong Cryptography to Render All Authentication Credentials Unreadable During Transmission and Storage
Strong Cryptography in Transmission and Storage PCI Requirements 3 and 4 help your organization implement strong cryptography methods, and we see it again here in PCI Requirement 8. Using strong cryptography is essential to protecting cardholder data. An attacker can easily capture unencrypted passwords during transmission and while in storage, and use this data to gain unauthorized access to your system or to the cardholder data environment. To prohibit this…