End of Window XP Life Could Debilitate Regulatory Compliance Standards:
The most widespread and reigning operating system, Window XP that was released on October 25, 2001 and was considered to be the most outstandingly accepted operating system platform among Consumer and Business Markets is now after April 8, 2014 will be defunct. That means , starting from April 9,2014 Microsoft will no longer provide support, market or any updates, hot fixes, any type of support options like Microsoft Security Essentials or online technical content updates. Also, there can be the scenario when great number of apps and devices don’t even work well with Window XP. Now, this will increase the hacking attacks exponentially on machine that are still continued to use Window XP. This looming sunset will have direct impact on enterprise environments, security locks on doors/buildings, automated teller machines, government computing devices, E-Commerce, military computing devices, retail industry with POS and other application running in that environment and other organizations that deals with Credit Cardholder data and those who are obliged to comply with PCI DSS requirements.
For retailers the impact can be higher as PCI Security Standard Council (PCI SSC) does not consider the out-of-date operating system which might cause problem for retailers (using Window XP ) with their banks , despite of whatever payment software’s they use. The overarching issue here is how this change will be affecting to those who most notably updated from 2.0 to 3.0 late last year and are bound to comply with the PCI DSS requirements.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), a set of 12 requirements that is administered by the Payment Card Indust...
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