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• PCI council launches certification program for IT staff

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 01 May, 2010 05:08

  The organization responsible for administering the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has launched a new program to help enterprises conduct self-assessments of their compliance with the standard.

• Gartner: No need to drop Heartland over PCI delistings

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 25 March, 2009 08:21

  A Gartner Inc. analyst is urging companies that do business with Heartland Payment Systems Inc. and RBS WorldPay Inc. not to switch to other payment processors just because of Visa Inc.'s decision this month to remove Heartland and RBS WorldPay from its list of service providers that are compliant with the PCI data security rules.

• Visa pilots new payment card security initiatives

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 23 March, 2009 07:47

  Acknowledging the need for controls that go beyond those offered by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, a senior Visa executive Thursday described two new initiatives to reduce payment card fraud being tested by the company.

• Visa: Post-breach criticism of PCI standard misplaced

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 20 March, 2009 07:37

  Visa's top risk management executive Thursday dismissed what she described as "recent rumblings" about the possible demise of the PCI data security rules as "premature" and "dangerous" to long-term efforts to ensure that credit and debit card data is secure.