
Posted by SecExtra on March 06th, 2008
PCI DSS (which stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance, which addresses the protection of cardholder data, is a recent phenomenon with the PCI Standard being launched in 2004.
Prior to this, individual card brands managed their own security standards governing the processing and handling of cardholder data. The most widely known was Visa’s Cardholder Information Security Programme (CISP) that originally targeted its top …