The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council intends to clear up confusion regarding tokenization, a process designed to protect payment card security. The council on Aug. 12 was scheduled to ...

Jewelry retailer Helzberg Diamonds has struggled to achieve compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data-security standards, so it is trying a new tactic: technology called tokenization that ...

Although often referenced interchangeably, it is apparent that security tokenization and payment tokenization solutions (such as network tokenization) are very different propositions. Processing ...

The PCI (payment card industry) Security Standards Council released a supplement to its PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) guidelines with a document on tokenization. (Version 2.0 of the PCI DSS was ...

The Payment Card Industry Council has warned merchants against assuming that 'tokenization' technology alone would ensure their compliance with the council's data security standard (PCI DSS). The ...

With the coming of mobile payments and their attendant security issues expanding demand for so-called token service providers, the PCI Security Standards Council has issued rules intended to keep the ...

One of the ways retailers have sought to comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements is to implement tokenization — a payment data encryption method in which ciphered cardholder data is ...

When we wrote our first PCI application security article Who’s Guarding the Data Bank? in 2008, commercially available cardholder tokenization was in its infancy. Generally speaking, data tokenization ...

For too many IT organizations, complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and corporate security policies has been far too costly, complex, and time consuming. Now, ...