{"id":75,"date":"2007-02-22T14:50:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T21:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cosaint.net\/?p=75"},"modified":"2023-03-21T06:43:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T06:43:27","slug":"pci-data-security-standard-and-security-awareness-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/pci-data-security-standard-and-security-awareness-training\/","title":{"rendered":"PCI Data Security Standard and Security Awareness Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard is a set of comprehensive security requirements that applies to merchants and service providers who process and\/or store payment card information. The standard was developed by Visa and MasterCard, and has now been adopted by the other major credit card issuing companies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77\" title=\"The PCI Data Security Standard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.empowerbpo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/pcidss.jpg\" alt=\"The PCI Data Security Standard\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/pcidss.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/pcidss-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The part of the standard that relates to security awareness and training is section 12.6 which requires merchants and service providers to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Implement a formal security awareness program to make all employees aware of the importance of cardholder data security.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Educate employees upon hire and at least annually.<\/li>\n<li>Require employees to acknowledge in writing that they have read and understood the company\u2019s security policy and procedures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Merchants and service providers are also required to provide appropriate training to staff with security breach response responsibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard is a set of comprehensive security requirements that applies to merchants and service providers who process and\/or store payment card information. The standard was developed by Visa and MasterCard, and has now been adopted by the other major credit card issuing companies. The part of the standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}