PCI (Payment Card) Standards for Corporate Professionals

Learn everything about the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards, including assessment and the 12 requirements.

Created by: Vasco Patrício
Executive Coach, Past MIT Portugal IEI-Backed Founder

Created by: Vasco Patrício Executive Coaching
Founder psychology and startup optimization

What Will I Learn?

• You'll learn about the terminology essential to the PCI-DSS, such as CDE, CHD, SAD, PANs, SAQs, ROCs, QSAs, as well as other payment industry terms
• You'll learn about the history of the PCI-DSS and its major revisions
• You'll learn about how the assessment process works, with ROCs and SAQs, and a clarification of the 8 types of SAQs
• You'll learn everything about Requirement 1, involving having a firewall configuration to isolate your card data, network documentation and more
• You'll learn everything about Requirement 2, including changing vendor defaults, isolating server functionality and securing vulnerabilities in devices
• You'll learn everything about Requirement 3 in terms of securing stored data, including encryption protocols, key lifecycle, key management and more
• You'll learn everything about Requirement 4, protecting data in transit, including masking plaintext PANs and using strong encryption protocols such as WPA/WPA2
• You'll learn everything about Requirement 5, in terms of preventing malware through an antivirus solution that is frequently updated and frequently runs scans
• You'll learn everything about Requirement 6, in terms of developing securely, doing regular vulnerability assessment and patching
• You'll learn everything about Requirement 7, in terms of limiting access to card data by "need-to-know", minimising who accesses it formally
• You'll learn everything about Requirement 8, in terms of identifying access through unique user IDs, strong authentication and MFA, password practices and more
• You'll learn everything about Requirement 9, in terms of physical security, visitor identification/authorisation, as well as media storage/transport/destruction
• You'll learn everything about Requirement 10, in terms of having a logging solution, logging specific required events, specific data points, and log integrity
• You'll learn everything about Requirement 11, in terms of doing regular AP (authorised + rogue) and IP audits, vulnerability testing, pentesting, etc
• You'll learn everything about Requirement 12, in terms of having a company-wide InfoSec policy, including employee screening, third-party screening, etc

Requirements

• You don't need any prior knowledge (knowledge of the payment industry or InfoSec helps, but is NOT required)

Target audience

• You're any payment professional looking to know more about information security of card data
• You're any InfoSec professional looking to know more about the information security requirements of the PCI-DSS
• You're any payment professional that wants to better protect card data in their systems