Requirement 6 of PCI DSS v1.2 states that in order to be compliant, an organization must: “Develop and maintain secure systems and applications” “Unscrupulous individuals use security vulnerabilities to gain privileged access to systems. Many of these vulnerabilities are fixed by vendor- provided security patches, which must be installed by the entities that manage the [...]

Requirement 4 of PCI DSS v1.2 states that we must: “Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public networks” Specifically, “Sensitive information must be encrypted during transmission over networks that are easily accessed by malicious individuals. Misconfigured wireless networks and vulnerabilities in legacy encryption and authentication protocols can be continued targets of malicious individuals who [...]

I would like to start off by excusing myself for having had a broken link on http://www.securich.com/downloads.html when I published the latest blog post about Securich.

The tool is downloadable from there and anyone can use it for free in accordance to GPLv2.

I wanted to throw out tutorial about how to install it and use it (Note this tutorial is for version securich version 0.1.2):