PCI Compliance, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, the most important part: I'd like to thank my wife Olga for being my eternal inspiration for all my writing, for providing invaluable economic advice, and for tolerating (well, almost always…) my work on the book during those evening hours that we could have spent together.

Next, I'd like to specially thank Derek Milroy for his exclusive material used in Chapter 8, “Vulnerability Management,” and also for reviewing the book contents.

Also, I'd like to personally thank the following people for their contributions to the book:

■ Walt Conway from 403 Labs for his insightful example used in Chapter 3, “Why Is PCI Here?”

■ John Kindervag from Forrester Research for inventing the concept of customer data security as part ...