Payment card industry (pci) compliant architecture and associated methodology of managing a service infrastructure
AssigneeReliant Security
InventorRICHARD NEWMAN
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Abstract
A system to ensure compliance with data security standards includes a security appliance to perform multiple security functions, with the security appliance including an initial configuration. The system further includes a display unit to provide information of compliance performance of the system on a secure basis. The system also includes a control unit to monitor compliance performance in real-time and to implement additional procedures required based on the monitored compliance to ensure compliance with data security standards.
Claims19
A system to ensure compliance with data security standards, the system comprising:
- a security appliance to perform multiple security functions, the security appliance including an initial configuration;
- a display unit to provide information of compliance performance of the system on a secure basis;
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- a control unit to monitor compliance performance in real-time and to implement additional procedures required based on the monitored compliance to ensure compliance with data security standards.
A security appliance comprising:
- a memory loaded with an initial configuration of the security appliance, the initial configuration including at least a global unit, an integrity unit, and a scanning unit;
- the global unit to monitor the functions of the security appliance and other units of the security appliance;
- the integrity unit to construct maps of file systems of the network devices and to compare the constructed maps with previously constructed maps to detect differences between the constructed maps and the previously constructed maps which are stored and retrieved from the memory, respectively;
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- the scanning unit to perform periodic network scans to ensure security of the network devices and to detect unrecognized devices on the network.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer executable instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor in a security appliance causes the processor to execute a method comprising:
- monitoring, by a global unit, the functions of the security appliance and other units of the security appliance;
- constructing, by an integrity unit, maps of file systems of the network devices;
- comparing, by the integrity unit, the constructed maps with previously constructed maps to detect differences between the constructed maps and the previously constructed maps;
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- performing, by a scanning unit, periodic network scans to ensure security of the network devices and to detect unrecognized devices on the network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.