Major incidences of high profile credit card or credit data loss seem to make the news on a regular basis. Long before these incidents, however, Visa created a private standard known as CISP, or the Cardholder Information Security Program. More recently, Visa, American Express, Diner’s Club, Discover, JCB, and MasterCard collaborated to create a new set of standards known as the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

All merchants and service providers who handle, transmit, store, or process information concerning any of these cards, or related card data, are required to be compliant with PCI.

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