Achieving PCI DSS compliance when managing retail devices with Intel® vPro™ technology

Brad Corrion, Naren Kumar and Manoj Punamia
Intel Corporation
January 2013



Merchant IT organizations are grappling with two competing priorities - maintain PCI DSS compliance, and to efficiently manage hundreds or thousands of remote devices. Not to mention that new devices are always being added, and those devices may have different form factors, support requirements, and transactional security needs.

Intel® Active Management Technology, a capability embedded in Intel® vPro Technology enabled platform can deliver on both priorities, and likely helps an organization exceed compliance requirements while supporting the revenue generating device uptime metrics today’s merchants require.