Stakeholders worldwide encouraged to represent their industries during standards implementation and feedback periods
Stakeholders worldwide encouraged to represent their industries during standards implementation and feedback periods
The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), the open industry standards body providing management of the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS), PIN Transaction Security (PTS) requirements and the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) has announced that nominations for election to the 2011-2013 PCI SSC Board of Advisors are now open.
The incoming Board of Advisors will represent the current roster of more than 600 PCI SSC participating organisations and will provide strategic and technical input to the council, reflecting the varied perspectives of a diverse set of global stakeholders. The council views this input as critical to the ongoing enhancement of PCI Standards.
Key standards role to play
In addition to advising on standards development, the Board of Advisors plays an important role in bringing frontline feedback and ideas to PCI SSC management; leading Special Interest Groups (SIGs); and helping the Council fulfil its mission to raise awareness and adoption of PCI Standards. As a global organisation, representation from Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific on the Board of Advisors helps reflect a diversity of experiences and perspectives on the protection of cardholder data against security threats worldwide.
“Over the past two years, our previous Board has provided us with a wide range of perspectives, advice and actionable feedback. Many of the tools and resources you see from PCI SSC today, such as the internal security assessor (ISA) training programme, the prioritised approach and the wireless guidelines informational supplement, were developed with the Board’s ideas and input,” said Bob Russo, PCI Security Standards Council general manager. “I’d like to thank the outgoing Board and to invite all participating organisations to consider running for a seat to share their unique industry viewpoints.”
To generate a broad range of input across a variety of stakeholders, 21 seats are available on the PCI SSC Board of Advisors, 14 will be open for nomination by current PCI SSC participating organisations. An additional seven will be appointed by the PCI SSC Executive Committee to ensure broad representation both geographically and across key stakeholder groups. To that end, elected seats will be distributed in the following categories: financial institutions (acquirers and issuers), payment processors, merchants (e.g. retailers, airlines) and others (e.g. technology vendors, industry associations, service providers). Only participating organisations are eligible to nominate and elect the Board of Advisors.
Companies interested in becoming a participating organisation may obtain more information on the PCI website.
How to get involved
The nominations process, which closes on Friday 25 February, will be followed by a voting period from mid-March to early April, in which participating organisations can vote for their representatives for the next two-year term. The new Board of Advisors will be announced in early May 2011.
“Barclaycard’s term on the Board of Advisors has been a great experience for me and my organisation,” said Neira Jones, global payment acceptance head of payment security for Barclaycard. “We have worked closely with the Council on a number of payment card industry issues, chaired a Special Interest Group and written papers which have been of great benefit to our key stakeholders. I encourage other organisations and payment security experts to actively participate in the Council to secure the payment value chain by getting involved in the Board of Advisors nomination process.”
The Board of Advisors is elected every two years. Organisations serving on the
Board since 2009 include: Bank of America Merchant Services, Banrisul S.A., Barclaycard, Chase Paymentech, Cisco, Citrix Systems, EPC, ExxonMobil, First Data Corp., Global Payments, JP Morgan Chase and Co., Lufthansa Systems, McDonalds Corp., MICROS Systems, PayPal, Royal Bank of Scotland, Tesco Stores Ltd., TSYS Acquiring Solutions, VeriFone and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
