Good News For Small Merchants

PCI News For Small Business Owners

Good News for small merchants; the PCI Council will offer a web site for small merchants. In order to provide assistance to small merchants in understanding the impact of data security measures, this fall the PCI Security Standards Council will launch a Web site. The PCI Data Security Standard principles and reasoning will be available. The PCI Data Security Standard council’s Troy Leach said that small merchants will be able to understand why the measures are important to them, and “why it's important to protect their customer information." According to an article in ISO & Agent Weekly “The council also plans to align the Data Security Standard, Payment Application Data Security Standard, and PIN Transaction Security Standard into three-year cycles. The move would give merchants more time to work with the current versions while reviewing upcoming versions, says the council's Jeremy King.”