Revision to PCI Standards Welcomed Despite Minor Changes, as Calls Made for Tokenisation to be Incorporated
SC Magazine reports the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) released version 2.0 of the PCI data security standard (PCI DSS) and payment application data security standard (PA DSS) this week with minor changes. Claiming this is designed ‘to provide greater clarity and flexibility to facilitate improved understanding of the requirements and eased implementation for merchants’, version 2.0 will become effective on the 1st of January 2011. As revealed by SC Magazine in August, version 2.0 does not introduce any new major requirements and the majority of changes are modifications to the language, which clarify the meaning of the requirements and make understanding and adoption easier for merchants.
