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When Shakespeare ponders the PCI DSS requirement to be onsite

Ben Rothke
7 min readMar 18, 2020
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Ben Rothke joins his longtime coauthor David Mundhenk, CISSP, CISA, PCI QSA, PCIP, Principal Security Consultant, at the Herjavec Group, for this article.

Travel the world

With the war raging in Viet Nam, the US Army was having trouble getting enough recruits. The traditional recruitment approaches simply were not working.

The Army decided to go to Madison Avenue, and the image below was from a US Army advertising campaign in the 1970s which tried to get men to enlist. The approach they used was that it was worth enlisting as you would be able to live in and visit exciting and interesting places.

For technology consultants in general, and those involved with PCI assessments specifically, there is often travel involved. But unlike the promise of the Army, it is not always to exciting places. While there are PCI projects in Maui, Vail, and other exotic locations, our destinations were often entirely off the beaten path.

Being on-site for the PCI DSS assessment

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Ben Rothke
Ben Rothke

Written by Ben Rothke

I work in information security at Tapad. Write book reviews for the RSA blog, & a Founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and Cybersecurity Canon.

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