PCI SSC and SRC

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) is a global forum that develops and promotes the use of infor­mation security standards for secure payments. It is respon­sible for 15 globally recog­nized and widely used standards for securing electronic payment processes — from payment card production and issuance to payment at the point of interest or in web & app, to the processing of payments in the background.

SRC has been assessing the use of those infor­mation security standards since PCI SSC was founded by means of corre­sponding assess­ments and product evalu­a­tions. The PCI SSC attaches great impor­tance to the exchange between different stake­holders and uses various committees and activ­ities for this purpose. SRC has so far partic­i­pated in Special Interest Groups and Task Forces as well as in Community Meetings and Request for Comment phases.

Global Executive Assessor Roundtable

The PCI SSC has been giving experi­enced assessor companies the oppor­tunity to advise its senior management since 2018 through the Global Executive Assessor Round­table (GEAR). We are excited that our company has been selected this year to be part of the inter­faces between leadership of the PCI SSC itself and leadership of the assessment companies by this respon­sible membership. This will enable us to contribute our years of experience in a direct way. The nomination is valid for the next two years and gives us the oppor­tunity to play an influ­ential role in the further devel­opment of speci­fi­ca­tions for assessment proce­dures, new training programs and quali­fi­cation require­ments for future assessors. Other GEAR respon­si­bil­ities include finding ways to promote assessors’ engagement in emerging and new markets, and optimizing assessors’ skills to add value for payments companies

We are proud to be included in this circle and see it as a recog­nition of our past perfor­mance and relevance in the payments security market. At the same time, we are aware of our respon­si­bility to act as a repre­sen­tative for a large community of assessment companies and take this as an additional incentive for the future.

Link to GEAR: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/about_us/global_executive_assessor_roundtable/