PCI Perspectives

Council CTO on Verizon’s Payment Security Report

Posted by Lindsay Goodspeed on 31 Aug, 2017 in Small Merchant Resources and Small Business and Community Meetings and Compliance and BAU and QIR and Interview

Verizon recently released its 2017 Payment Security Report. In advance of the upcoming North America... READ MORE

What’s Next for the QSA Program?

Posted by Laura K. Gray on 23 Aug, 2017 in QSA and Interview and 3DS

In March 2017 the PCI SSC announced plans to evolve the PCI Qualified Security Assessors (QSA) Pro... READ MORE

Associate QSA Program: Coming Soon

Posted by Laura K. Gray on 14 Aug, 2017 in QSA and PCI SSC and Interview

In March 2017 the PCI SSC announced plans to develop an Associate QSA certification program, as pa... READ MORE

PCI Special Interest Groups: Industry Collaboration at its Best

Posted by Laura K. Gray on 10 Aug, 2017 in Interview and SIGs and Participation

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are community-driven initiatives that focus on payment security cha... READ MORE

What’s Next for PCI DSS?

Posted by Laura K. Gray on 3 Aug, 2017 in PCI DSS and Interview

PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) version 3.2 was published in April 2016. In this blog post we... READ MORE

The State of Payment Security in Brazil

Posted by Lindsay Goodspeed on 25 Jul, 2017 in Interview and Community Meetings and Malware and Events and ATM Security

Leading up to the Latin America Forum in São Paulo, Brazil, Associate Regional Director Carlos Cae... READ MORE

Demystifying the NESA

Posted by Laura K. Gray on 13 Jul, 2017 in Interview and Point to Point Encryption (P2PE) and Encryption and NESA

Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) technology makes data unreadable so it has no value to criminals ... READ MORE

Mobile Payment Acceptance: A Look at PCI’s New Software-Based PIN-Entry Initiative

Posted by Laura K. Gray on 10 Jul, 2017 in Interview and PTS POI and Software and Mobile and SPoC

The PCI Security Standards Council has been discussing with stakeholders plans for a new security ... READ MORE

Council Adds Training to Bolster Secure Payment Application Installation

Posted by Lindsay Goodspeed on 1 Jun, 2017 in QIR and Interview and Training and Remote Access

In 2012 it was reported that 76% of data breaches were a result of security vulnerabilities introd... READ MORE

5 Questions with Swati Sharma

Posted by Lindsay Goodspeed on 12 May, 2017 in Interview and Community Meetings and QSA and TLS/SSL

Leading up to the Asia-Pacific Community Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, speaker Swati Sharma, QSA, ... READ MORE

5 Questions with Chalee Vorakulpipat

Posted by Lindsay Goodspeed on 8 May, 2017 in Interview and Awareness and Community Meetings

Leading up to the Asia-Pacific Community Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, keynote speaker Chalee Vora... READ MORE

Making the E-commerce Channel Safer

Posted by Lindsay Goodspeed on 26 Apr, 2017 in eCommerce and SIGs and Interview

The Council published Best Practices for Securing E-commerce which educates merchants on accepting... READ MORE

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