About Lalit Kale

Lalit Kale works as an Architect at e-Zest. He has an industry experience of over 7 years. His areas of interest and expertise include various Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, WCF and Windows Azure. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (IT). He has also been instrumental in taking solutions to next stage for e-Zest's enterprise customers.

In his spare time he likes to try out open source technologies and loves to watch TED.com

Introduction to Specification Pattern

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Lalit Kale

Specification pattern has emerged out of “Domain Driven Design” phenomenon. It is first identified and articulated here by Eric Evans and Martin Fowler. Specification Pattern is based on method chaining technique and beautifully uses fluent interfaces. In method chaining, we … Read More

Considerations for PA-DSS Compliant Solution Development – Part 2

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Lalit Kale

For earlier 9 points kindly refer to my earlier blog at Considerations for PA-DSS Compliant Solution Development – Part 1

Develop applications based on secure coding guidelines. Prevent common coding vulnerabilities in software development processes, to include the following:
a.

Considerations for PA-DSS Compliant Solution Development – Part 1

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Lalit Kale

Following are the considerations for the development and Implementation of software solutions in a PCI-DSS Compliant Environment. These should be treated as functional and/or quality requirements while developing PCI DSS Compliant solution.

Ensure that all system components and software are

PCI Compliance Overview

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Lalit Kale

PCI DSS version 2.0 must be adopted by all organizations with payment card data by 1 January 2011, and from 1 January 2012 all assessments must be against version 2.0 of the standard.

It specifies the 12 requirements for compliance, … Read More

PCI Compliance Introduction

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Lalit Kale

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) has developed security standards for handling cardholder information in a published standard called the PCI-DSS Data Security Standard (DSS). The security requirements defined in the DSS apply to all members, merchants, and service providers that … Read More