Cisco PCI Solution for Retail 2.0 Design and Implementation Guide

The Art of Compliance

Cisco's Global Retail Marketing team commissioned professional artists to create works of art inspired by PCI as a creative way to support Cisco's global launch of the Cisco PCI Solution for Retail 2.0. Each artist was given a description of the 12 requirements of PCI, general networking information, an overview of data security, and a description of Cisco's PCI solution. The following pages contain the artists' interpretations of the solution, networking, and data security.

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Artist: Nancy Nimoy

Title: "Encrypted Data Crooks"

This piece is about encrypted data and the bad guys who steal it. When I thought of encrypted data, I thought of a human fingerprint and how it is literally a manifestation of what is inviolably unique about us. I thought to depict one's interior and deeply personal DNA. To communicate how our uniqueness is so often diminished and violated and "stolen" these days.

I used the universal symbol of theft, the generic black-cloaked burglar. He lurks behind the scrim of a loosely drawn human profile, encroaching upon the imperfect water color of a human head with its fingerprint brain. Layers of my piece are deliberately transparent and overlapping to convey "intrusion."

A cacophony of numbers, letters, codes, and secret passwords represent our pathetic defense against the onslaught of HTML bad guys trying to steal our encrypted data.

Artist: Eric Thorsen

Title: "Information Lock Down"

The credit card contained inside the lock illustrates how personal data can be withheld and protected from anyone not having the correct "key" or password. Restricting access to data with user IDs and passwords secures lock doors where sensitive data is stored.

Artist: Matt Foster

Title: "Worldwide Data Safety"

Since the subject is technical in nature, this project needed subtlety and a connection to human elements. Since the image was planned for a myriad of viewing possibilities and would also be viewed worldwide, it needed to illustrate the complex, layered concept of the product yet be simple.

I started with a dark background, adding a layer of semi-transparent red eyes representing the checks and balances of the program, and also doubling as a "who else is looking" aspect. The lock is in the shape of the globe with the numbers being the security element. The keyhole is YOU- the user. The circle completes the world of secure data.

Artist: Lance Jackson

Title: "Stack"

A stack of credit cards is completely tantalizing eye candy. Credit cards are as American as apple pie and baseball. The bright pop-art colors are appropriately American. Knowing that the cards are secured wherever they are used is even more empowering.

Artist: Larry Janoff

Title: "Failed Breach"

I was raised before the computer era, so conceptualizing a breach in security brings to my mind the "olden tools" used by a thief in the "olden days." PCI is a difficult concept for people like me to comprehend, but the theme is SECURITY!

Artist: Sue Averell

Title: "Network Neighborhood"

While creating this painting, I strove to combine my current theme of neighborhoods with that of data networks. It was important to me to be true to my style. Color and texture and an elevated view of the subject are some of the identifying characteristics of all my work.