PCI-DSS Resources

What is The Standard?

Accepting credit and debit cards is a fact of life at campuses nationwide. Hand-in-hand with card acceptance comes the responsibility to safeguard and protect all transaction and consumer data. Unfortunately, education institutions because of their open networks and occasionally inadequate security procedures are particularly vulnerable to hacking and other compromises of confidential data: of the 321 information security breaches nationwide reported in 2006, 84 ? or 26% ? were at education institutions. This 26% share for Education is particularly disproportionate when we consider that education represents only a small percent of total payment activity nationwide. As a result, financial institutions and card issuers increasingly view education institutions as risky merchants. Click here for full article

2008 PCI Workshop Survey on PCI Compliance in Higher Education

2007 Long Beach PCI DSS Workshop Details

2007 Chicago PCI DSS Workshop Materials

2006 Whitepaper for Higher Education

2006 Higher Education Best Practices Checklist

2006 PCI DSS Workshop Materials

Visa mandates that merchants eliminate the use of vulnerable payment applications