Posts Tagged Tokenization (data security)
PayPal, Payments and PCI
Posted by brianfpennington in PCI DSS Compliance on 07/02/2012
Ingenico has announced a partnership with PayPal which will enable merchants with Ingenico POS devices to accept PayPal payment options, read the press release here. Ingenico and PayPal have each made statements on the relationship: “Today’s savvy shoppers want the option to choose how they pay for goods and are agile enough to easily switch between multi-shopping […]
Data Security Survey to gauge organisations’ perception of their own IT security
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 30/12/2011
As we near the end of 2011 Hitachi ID Systems has run its first annual Data Security Survey to gauge organisations’ perception of their own IT security. Survey background Hitachi’s survey focused on Identity and Access Management (IAM) and had several “hundred” respondents from 16 different industries including agriculture, aerospace, construction media and retail. The largest group […]
Good news for Merchants as the PCI Security Standards Council releases Tokenization guidance
Posted by brianfpennington in PCI DSS Compliance on 17/08/2011
On August the 12th The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) published guidelines to help Merchants and credit card processors take advantage of “Tokenization“. The PCI SSC definition of Tokenization: “Tokenization technology replaces a Primary Account Number (PAN) with a surrogate value called a “token”. Specific to PCI DSS, this involves substituting sensitive PAN […]
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