Mastercard rolls out PCI Merchant Education Program<h1 align="left">Mastercard rolls out PCI Merchant Education Program </h1><p align="left"> </p><p align="left"><font size="2">Motivated with the effort to assist merchants and acquiring banks on the norms of the Payment Card Industry (PCI), Mastercard put up the <strong>PCI Merchant Education Program</strong> website with tools serving the said purpose. </font></p><p align="left"><font size="2"><br /><br />Quoting from the industry leader, the aim of the <strong>PCI Merchant Education Program</strong> is to provide “complimentary education and training for acquiring banks and merchants to better their understanding of PCI DSS through interactive sessions”. The online guide contains eight modules composed by other key players such as the PCI Security Standards Council , One-SEC/Trustwave, British Airways, Verizon Business, Arsenal Security Group , Security Metrics ,and from their own breed, Mastercard Worldwide. <br /></font></p><p align="left"><font size="2"><br />The modules contained in the <strong>PCI Merchant Education Program </strong>will be tackling the following topics:<br /></font></p><ul><li><font size="2">basics about the PCI Security Standards Council</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2">breakdown of the PCI DSS Requirements </font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2">how to be PCI-compliant</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2">knowing Account Data Compromise</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2">tips on how to breeze through the PCI Assessment</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2">digesting PCI Vulnerability Scanning </font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2">understanding Payment application and Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2">going through the Compliance Validation & Beyond</font></li></ul><br /><br /><div align="left"><font size="2">You need to register first before getting the modules at www.webcasts.com/mastercardpci.</font><br /></div><br /><font size="2">Surely, these information will be a plus points for low-risk and high risk merchants alike. Getting the PCI compliance is every merchant and acquiring bank and payment processor's dream. The <strong>PCI Merchant Education program</strong> will be somewhat the Book of Shadows of the payment processing industry.</font> |
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