Learning Secure Payments and PCI

Get a high-level introduction to how payments get from merchants to banks, the risks associated with theft or compromise of credit card data, and PCI compliance standards.

Introduction

• PCI standards for secure payments

1. Credit Cards: Behind the Scenes

• Credit cards: Complexity and risks
• Merchants
• Issuers, payment processors, and banks
• Stolen cards: Where do they go?

2. Paying in Store

• Magnetic swipe vs. alternatives
• Alternative payments
• POS breaches

3. Online Payments

• How it works: "Card not present"
• The risks of taking payments online
• Impact of chip cards
• E-Skimming

4. What about PCI Standards?

• What are the PCI Standards?
• Reporting levels and becoming compliant
• SAQs and ROCs
• Tokenization

Conclusion

• Next steps for PCI compliance