The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council intends to clear up confusion regarding tokenization, a process designed to protect payment card security. Processing Content The council on Aug.

When we wrote our first PCI application security article Who’s Guarding the Data Bank? in 2008, commercially available cardholder tokenization was in its infancy. Generally speaking, data tokenization ...

The PCI (payment card industry) Security Standards Council released a supplement to its PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) guidelines with a document on tokenization. (Version 2.0 of the PCI DSS was ...

ATLANTA — December 16, 2011 — Liaison Technologies, a global provider of secure cloud-based integration and data management services and solutions, is offering a free download of a new white paper ...

Two years ago, I was asked to join Nexio in order to build a payment platform for e-commerce. Our chief strategist Cache Decker realized that choosing a payment gateway and integrating it into an ...

Today, it’s expected that merchants accept electronic payments and that those payments are secure with no data leaks or breaches of any kind. But the reality is many merchants don’t truly understand ...

Although often referenced interchangeably, it is apparent that security tokenization and payment tokenization solutions (such as network tokenization) are very different propositions. Processing ...

One of the ways retailers have sought to comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements is to implement tokenization — a payment data encryption method in which ciphered cardholder data is ...

Last week, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council released new guidelines related to the security of tokenization products. The guidelines are a set of technical best practices for ...

When a merchant cannot -- or will not -- replace credit card numbers with tokens provided by its payment processor, how does it secure it database to be PCI-compliant?Based on the understanding that ...