{"id":1980,"date":"2012-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otava.test\/diagram-of-pci-compliant-hosting-requirements\/"},"modified":"2012-07-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T00:00:00","slug":"diagram-of-pci-compliant-hosting-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/diagram-of-pci-compliant-hosting-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagram of PCI Compliant Hosting Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What comprises the technical, physical and administrative components of a complete <a href=\"https:\/\/otavawebsite.wpengine.com\/compliance-security\/pci-compliant-cloud\/\">PCI compliant hosting<\/a> package? Find out in our Anatomy of a PCI Stack diagram below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.otava.com\/pci-compliant-data-needs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"PCI White Paper\" src=\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pci-white-paper-sm.gif\" alt=\"PCI White Paper\" width=\"250\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a>To read more about each requirement, download our free <a href=\"https:\/\/web.otava.com\/pci-compliant-data-needs\">white paper<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/otavawebsite.wpengine.com\/operations\/locations\/michigan-cloud-and-data-centers\/\/compliance\/pci-compliant-data-centers\">PCI Compliant Data Centers<\/a>. Detailed information on PCI audited data center requirements; high availability, secure network requirements; and secure server environment requirements can be found, as well as diagrams explaining specific security technologies.<\/p>\n<p>This 27-page document also discusses the outsource vs. in-house debate, vendor selection criteria, and worksheets with questions to ask your <a href=\"https:\/\/otavawebsite.wpengine.com\/compliance-security\/pci-compliant-cloud\/\">PCI hosting<\/a> provider and a data center standards cheat sheet as a one-page primer on what audits you should seek.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7437\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7437 \" title=\"PCI Compliant Hosting\" src=\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anatomyofapcistack.png\" alt=\"PCI Compliant Hosting\" width=\"594\" height=\"784\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PCI Compliant Hosting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What comprises the technical, physical and administrative components of a complete PCI compliant hosting package? 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This 27-page document also discusses the outsource vs. in-house debate, vendor selection criteria, and worksheets with questions to ask your PCI hosting provider and a data center standards cheat sheet as a one-page primer on what audits you should seek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"other_category":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Diagram of PCI Compliant Hosting Requirements | OTAVA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What are the technical, physical and administrative components of a complete PCI compliant hosting package? 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