PCI London - July 2012

Yet another successful PCI London event for the Ground Labs EMEA team, held at the Victoria Park Plaza in London as always.

It's always interesting to speak with the delegates in attendance, many of whom attended previous PCI London events yet continue to face challenges either implementing PCI compliance or maintaining PCI Compliance, often due to operational, political or budgetary issues.

The PCI London audience consisted of over 350 senior stakeholders from some of the UK's largest companies

Global Director of Corporate Development for Ground Labs - Stephen Cavey

The lucky iPad3 Winner!

This time round we changed track from our mainstream cardholder data discovery presentation and had our global Director of Corporate Development, Stephen Cavey deliver a presentation titled "Show me the proof and I'll show you the money. Engaging CXO buy-in to your PCI compliance initiatives".

The presentation aimed at delivering exactly what the title suggests - ways to win back those budgets that supported your PCI compliance efforts which for many, are now gone.

We have met many PCI compliance champions who have said one of the biggest challenges in moving forward with compliance initiatives continues to be budget. Not necessarily due to economic climate but often due to the previous PCI compliance project failures which missed deadlines and delivered no tangible value that the business could recognise. It was for this reason we decided to build a presentation based on our all of our own learnings through working with many global organisations of all shapes an sizes and having seen both successful and failed PCI compliance projects in action.

Later in the day Stephen went on to deliver some focused education sessions on implementing and using Enterprise Recon for network wide cardholder data discovery across multi-site environments.

The Ground Labs Team! - Stephen Cavey (Global Director), Jessica Hagley (EMEA Marketing), Mo Zouine (EMEA Director)

Also in attendence at the event was the familiar and friendly group of PCI compliance vendors including Protegrity, Veritape, LogRhythm, Forgenix, Verizon, Semafone, Sysnet, and IP Payments.

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