Today we'll meet one of the Council's newest employees, our Head of Product and Technology, Deanne Zettler. Deanne comes to the PCI SSC with more than 25 years of experience leading product and technology strategies, solutions and operations in financial services, including stops at Discover Financial Services and Silicon Valley Bank. Thank you for joining us today, Deanne, and welcome to the team.

Today, I am so excited to bring you a sneak peek interview with PCI SSC's Europe and Asia Pacific Community Meeting keynote speaker, Dr. Bruce McCabe, Global Futurist. Bruce has explored emerging technologies and how innovation happens for 30 years. He began his career at IBM in 1988 and went on to hold senior roles at IBM, WordPerfect, Novell, and Gartner. In 2002, he founded S2 Intelligence, a think tank to support organizational innovation through grounded research. He served as an...

Today, I am so excited to bring you a sneak peek interview with PCI SSC's North America Community Meeting Keynote Speaker, Tom Koulopoulos. Mr. Koulopoulos is Chairman and Founder of Delphi Group, a 30-year-old Boston-based Think Tank, named one of the fastest growing private companies by Inc. magazine, and the founding partner of AcroVantage Ventures, which invests in early-stage technology startups. He is also the author of 13 books, an Inc. .com columnist, the past executive director of...

In this episode, we'll meet three Qualified Security Assessors, or QSAs. A QSA company is a data security firm certified by the Council to perform on-site assessments of a company's PCI Data Security Standard compliance. This ensures that robust policies and procedures are in place to protect cardholder data. The QSA Program plays a critical role in the adoption of PCI security standards. 

Today we'll meet one of the Council's newest team members, our Head of Engagement, Diana Greenhaw. Diana comes to the PCI SSC after a successful 20-year career in payments that included stops at WorldPay, Visa, and Block. Thank you for joining us today, Diana, and welcome to the team.

At our Community Meetings in 2022, the Council announced a significant change to its Participating Organization program. Today, I am joined by the Council's Senior Vice President of Education and Engagement, Mark Meissner who has been spearheading this effort, and is going to talk about some of these changes over the past couple of years, and how the PO program has evolved. 

Today, I am joined by Lance Johnson, who has been the Executive Director of The Council for more than six years and a member of the payments industry for more than 40 years. In light of your recent retirement announcement, we're here to reflect on all the moments that have defined your distinguished career, Lance, and to of course, thank you for all of the contributions you've made to our industry. 

Today I am thrilled to introduce the Council's new Executive Director, Gina Gobeyn. Gina joins PCI SSC following the announcement of Lance Johnson's retirement this year. As Executive Director, Gina will drive the organization's strategic direction, its operations, and oversee the PCI SSC senior leadership team and staff. I'm delighted to have you join us today, Gina.

Today I'm joined by three very amazing guests, and we will share a brief update of Asia-Pacific. First, we have Aileen Liu, who is the director of PAX Technology’s Payment Technology Department. Now, PAX Technology is one of the largest POS solution providers in the world, and PAX is also a PCI Principal Participating Organization. They are a PCI Board of Advisor member as well. Aileen is the primary point of contact representing PAX in both groups. Next, we have Gilbert Chu, who is the...

Today I'm joined by my co-host for the day, Director of Communications, Simon Kleine, at EMVCo. And we're having a conversation with Arman Aygen, Director of Technology at EMVCo, and PCI Security Standard Council's VP of Solution Standards, Andrew Jamieson. Today, we're going to be talking about the valuable partnership and collaboration between EMVCo and PCI SSC. We're going to take a deeper dive into mobile payments, including Tap to Mobile, and also PCI SSC's MPoC standard. Let's kick off...

India's digital payment market is expected to grow by $10 trillion by 2026. In a span of just six years, India, primarily a cash-based economy, now leads the world in real time digital payments, accounting for almost 40% of all such transactions. The mass adoption of UPI and cardless payments during the COVID-19 pandemic has extended far beyond the urban, to even rural India, an effect that left the experts in amazement. This rapid expansion of the digital payments systems is happening at a...

Today we'll meet one of the Council's newest employees, our Regional Vice President of North America, Wenlock Free. Wen is based in the USA and spent 20 years in a senior role at Security Metrics, where he led strategic partnerships and business development activity. 

Today, I am so excited to bring you a sneak peek interview with PCI SSC's Community Meeting Keynote Speaker, Jenny Radcliffe. Jenny is a world-renowned social engineer, hired to bypass security systems through a mixture of psychology and con artistry. A burglar for hire and entertaining educator, she has spent a lifetime talking her way into secure locations, protecting clients from scammers, and leading simulated criminal attacks on organizations of all sizes in order to help secure money,...

Today we'll speak with Jeremy King, the Regional Vice President of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, for PCI SSC. 

In this episode, Retail & Hospitality ISAC podcast host Luke Vander Linden is joined by co-host Alicia Malone, senior manager of public relations at PCI SSC, Kandyce Young, manager of data security standards at PCI SSC, and Tony James, director of cyber security at Target to discuss the rollout of PCI DSS v4.0. Questions relating to the rollout? Register here for the RH-ISAC and PCI DSS v4.0 webinar on May 25 at 3 p.m. ET. More information about PCI SSC and the new version of PCI DSS v4.0...

Today we'll meet the Council's Regional Director of Latin America and the Caribbean, Guilherme Scheibe. Guilherme is based in Brazil and joined the Council last year to help us educate and promote the importance of the PCI Security Standards within the region.

New this year, the size and the role of the Board are expanding to provide a greater range of input for the Council. For the first time ever, the Board of Advisors will have the opportunity to vote on new standards and major revisions to standards prior to their release. To talk more about the importance of the Board, I caught up with one of our current Board members, Michel Léger, who is the Executive Vice President of Global Solution Development & Innovation at INGENICO.

In this episode of Coffee with the Council, PCI SSC’s Executive Director Lance Johnson looks ahead to what 2023 will bring to the PCI Security Standards Council.

In this episode of Coffee with the Council, PCI SSC’s Andrew Jamieson, VP Solutions Standards, discusses the Council’s newest standard for mobile solutions: Mobile Payments on COTS or MPoC. Learn more about how this standard was developed and how it differs from PCI SSC’s other mobile standards.

Today, we'll meet one of the Council's newest employees, our Regional Vice President of Asia-Pacific, Yew Kuann Cheng. Yew Kuann is based in Singapore and spent 15 years as the Senior Director of Risk, Strategy, and Operations in Asia-Pacific for Visa. Thank you for joining us today, Yew Kuann, and also welcome to the team.

Today was the final day of the 2022 Europe Community Meeting. Alicia Malone, Senior Manager of Public Relations sits down to provide a recap of the event. Highlights from the conversation include: Lance Johnson, Executive Director, PCI SSC, announces a new engagement opportunity that will significantly expand the Board of Advisors and create new participation opportunities for stakeholders. Sherron Burgess, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, BCD Travel; Board...

Today was the final day of the 2022 North America Community Meeting. Lindsay Goodspeed, Senior Manager of Corporate Communications, sits down to provide a recap of the day. Highlights from the conversation include: Keynote speaker Confidence Staveley of CyberSafe Foundation discusses the importance of diversity within the security industry. Kandyce Young, Standards Manager at PCI SSC, discusses PCI DSS v4.0 and where stakeholders can find supporting resources to help drive their...

The first full day of the 2022 North America Community Meeting was filled with engaging and informative sessions. Alicia Malone, Senior Manager of Public Relations sits down to provide a recap of the day. Highlights from the conversation include: Lance Johnson, Executive Director, PCI SSC, announces a new engagement opportunity that will significantly expand the Board of Advisors and create new participation opportunities for stakeholders. Keynote speaker Melodie Yashir gives an...