In January 2005, the world's five leading payment card brands — American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard and Visa — collaborated to create a worldwide standard for protecting consumer cardholder data. The result: the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), a compilation of best practices for securing data throughout the information lifecycle.
Since then, businesses worldwide have moved to comply with the standard and a variety of questions and challenges have arisen. The RSA PCI DSS Resource Center is here to provide merchants, payment processors and banks with tools and information that will help you navigate the standard — now and over time.
In January 2005, the world's five leading payment card brands — American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard and Visa — collaborated to create a worldwide standard for protecting consumer cardholder data. The result: the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), a compilation of best practices for securing data throughout the information lifecycle.
