PCI DSS: A Practical Guide to implementing and maintaining compliance, Third Edition
by Steve Wright
BACKGROUND
What is PCI?
In 2001, VISA and MasterCard each instigated basic levels of credit card security compliance programs, in which both retailers (known as merchants), banks and entities that provided cardholder authentication and authorisation services (known as service providers) were required to demonstrate compliance.
Visa had created CISP (Cardholder Information Security Programme) and MasterCard had created SDP (Site Data Protection). And each security standard placed a heavy burden on both merchants and service providers; as they had to comply with several different programs. Fortunately, by 2004 VISA and MasterCard had set up a joint data security standard known as the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), which ...
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