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Meeting the challenge of 4.0.1 — Highlights from the 26th PCI London
The 26th PCI London, held on January 21, 2025, at the Park Plaza in Victoria, brought together cybersecurity experts, IT professionals and organizations to discuss the evolving world of PCI DSS compliance and cybersecurity strategies. Industry leaders shared insights on the latest PCI security standards updates, their challenges and best practices for safeguarding cardholder data…
Building trust in digital transactions: Payment security in 2025
The payment landscape continues evolving rapidly, influenced by technological advancements and changing consumer behaviors. These changes present new threats to payments security and demand flexibility and innovation to ensure continued consumer trust. This article explores the key trends shaping payment security in 2025. From advanced threat intelligence and biometrics to AI-driven fraud detection and API…
Security Insights and Innovations: Highlights from the 2024 Asia-Pacific Community Meeting
Last week, we made the trip to Hanoi, Vietnam, for the final PCI Community Meeting event of the year. The 2024 Asia-Pacific Community Meeting did not disappoint. Reinforcing the messages from the North America and European events, the APAC conference brought together hundreds of payment security stakeholders both in-person and virtually, representing 26 countries around…
Enhancing payment security: Key takeaways from the 2024 Europe Community Meeting
Last month saw the second stop of the 2024 Community Meetings hosted by the PCI SSC, as the Europe event kicked off in Barcelona, Spain on October 8. Building on the success of the North America Community Meeting, the event attracted more than 600 in-person and online delegates. The agenda centered around the latest updates…
Transforming PCI security: Insights from the 2024 North America Community Meeting
The PCI SSC Community Meetings for 2024 got underway this month with the 2024 North America Community Meeting taking place in Boston, MA on September 10-12. The event highlighted several key changes to the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) including across its leadership team and introduced its new “product delivery model” approach that will…
Navigating the data deluge: Data discovery for telecommunications and IT services
The telecommunications industry — encompassing carrier networks, IT service providers and managed service providers (MSPs) — plays a crucial role in our connected world. The immense volumes of data handled by the sector demands cybersecurity and data security as indispensable business strategies for these organizations. As they continue to push the limits of technology to…
A quick guide to data discovery for QSAs
PCI DSS 4.0.1 is the latest evolution of the card data security standard that has revolutionized the payments industry. Of the 64 controls introduced at the release of PCI DSS v4.0, eight are directly supported by data discovery. In this post, we'll provide a quick guide to data discovery for PCI QSAs. QSAs are familiar…
PCI DSS v4.0.1 — what you need to know
On June 11, 2024, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) released an updated version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). PCI DSS v4.0.1 was mentioned briefly in an Assessor newsletter in late 2023 and discussed at the 2023 PCI SSC Community Meetings, promising its release in the first half of…
The relevance of data discovery for financial services compliance
In the dynamic world of financial services, data is a critical necessity. Driven by many factors, much of this data is personal information and transaction data. Financial regulations mandate both that financial service companies collect and retain specific types of information and that they protect the security of the data and individuals’ privacy rights. The…
A guide to PCI DSS v4.0 compliance for merchants
This article is a merchant’s guide to PCI DSS v4.0, explaining where the PCI DSS has come from, what’s new in the latest version of the standard and the steps merchants can take towards PCI DSS v4.0 compliance today. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a globally recognized security standard designed…