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description: Mike Stailey is the Director of Compliance and brings over 16 years of technical and 15 years of managerial experience, solving complex problems for a variety of enterprise compliance requirements. Mike brings a customer-centric outlook toward compliance solutions facilitating a focus on responsive support resolutions and strategic IT partnerships.
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# NetWorks Group Blog
## Mike Stailey
Mike Stailey is the Director of Compliance and brings over 16 years of technical and 15 years of managerial experience, solving complex problems for a variety of enterprise compliance requirements. Mike brings a customer-centric outlook toward compliance solutions facilitating a focus on responsive support resolutions and strategic IT partnerships.
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## [Why your next PCI Assessment can be smoother than you think](https://email.networksgroup.com/why-your-next-pci-assessment-can-be-smoother-than-you-think)
Posted by [Mike Stailey](https://email.networksgroup.com/author/mike-stailey) on Nov 15, 2017 9:34:57 AM
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***PCI Compliance is here to stay:***
Typically, IT managers dread the annual PCI assessment. With publicized credit card breaches on the rise, meeting PCI compliancy will be even more so of a requirement with potential increases in punitive actions for companies not meeting that compliancy. To add to the existing complexity of PCI DSS, with emerging threats of capabilities to breach corporate networks on a consistent basis, PCI requirements will remain in a perpetual state of change.
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## [Why IT Managers do not like PCI Assessments](https://email.networksgroup.com/why-it-managers-do-not-like-pci-assessments)
Posted by [Mike Stailey](https://email.networksgroup.com/author/mike-stailey) on Jun 28, 2017 2:14:00 PM
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*What is PCI Compliance*?
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## [PCI's Bold Move to Define Penetration Testing](https://email.networksgroup.com/pcis-bold-move-to-define-penetration-testing)
Posted by [Mike Stailey](https://email.networksgroup.com/author/mike-stailey) on Apr 7, 2015 11:14:00 AM
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In March 2015, the PCI Council released their Information Supplement for Penetration Testing Guidance. This is a fantastic move as previous guidelines were centered on the completion of penetration tests and left the methodology for completing those up to the auditor. With this guidance in place, we now have a clear definition to what qualifies as a penetration test in the eyes of the Council. There isn’t a need to rehash the document for you here, and I encourage everyone to read it. I would like to focus on a few key highlights that I’m happy to see added.
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