The State of PCI Compliance: Tony Bradley, Author/Expert

The Heartland Payment Systems data breach has brought extra attention to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard - PCI DSS. How well embraced is the standard, and what happens to companies if they're found to not be PCI compliant? In an exclusive interview, Tony Bradley, co-author of the book PCI Compliance: Understand and Implement Effective PCI Data Security Standard, discusses: The state of PCI compliance; What's most misunderstood about the standard; The top three PCI-related stories we'll see unfold in 2009. Bradley is Director of Security for Evangelyze Communications, a global voice and unified communications products and professional services organization. He also is the lead-author and tech editor of PCI Compliance, currently co-authoring PCI Compliance - 2nd edition with Dr. Anton Chuvakin.