Project Planning Software

[Sabniveesu Shashank]

What a prompt reply Mr Steve Flynn.. Thanks for that info. That last part
comes to me enlightening. Going to share your answer in our class's group
mail.


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 21 February 2013 16:01, Sabniveesu Shashank <shashank16392 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply Colin Law but I don't understand why a Software
> > Development organisation needs PCI (as being discussed by both the
> persons
> > involved in this conversation). Can anyone in this conversation explain?
>
> Because they are developing software which handles card payments. The
> FSA and various other financial organisations get very upset if you
> aren't following the rules which you need to abide by if you're
> handling sensitive information, financial information and the like.
> Very large fines, enforce company closure, jail time, etc.
>
> When you're studying Comp Sci you get all excited about acyclic
> graphs, A*, predicate calculus, functional programming and all that
> lovely stuff. When you get into the real world and start developing
> production code, you realise that most companies don't give a shit
> about whether you write Scala or Haskell but they do care very much
> about security, especially their clients data.
>
> --
> Steve
>
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