Payment Card Industry Data
Security Standards
Discussion Objectives
Agenda
Introduction
PCI Overview and History
The Protiviti Difference
Questions and Discussion
PCI DSS Overview and History
Global Payment Card Statistics
• Issuers, merchants, and acquirers of credit, debit, and prepaid general purpose and private label payment cards worldwide experienced gross fraud losses of $11.27 billion in 2012, up 14.6% over the prior year, according to The Nilson Report, a leading payment industry newsletter. Of that $11.27 billion, card issuers lost 63% and merchants and acquirers lost the other 37%.
• Fraud as percentage of total volume was lowest for PIN-based debit networks worldwide at 1.10¢ per
$100 in total volume. The global brand cards — Visa, MasterCard, American Express, UnionPay, Diners Club, and JCB — averaged fraud losses of 6.13¢ for every $100 in total volume.
• Card issuer losses occur mainly at the point of sale from counterfeit cards. Issuers bear the fraud loss if they give merchants authorization to accept the payment.
• Merchant and acquirer losses occur mainly on card-not-present (CNP) transactions on the Web, at a call center, or through mail order because issuers can chargeback fraudulent transactions.
Source: http://www.nilsonreport.com/publication_chart_and_graphs_archive.php
Need for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
PCI DSS Overview
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of requirements designed to ensure that ALL companies that store, process or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
About PCI DSS
The PCI DSS is administered and managed by the PCI
Security Standards Council (SSC), an independent body that was created by the major payment card brands (Visa,
MasterCard, American Express, Discover and JCB.).
PCI applies to ALL organizations or merchants, regardless of size or number of transactions, that accept, transmit or store any cardholder data. Said another way, if any customer of that organization ever pays the merchant directly using a credit card or debit card, then the PCI DSS requirements apply.
Source: http://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/pcifaqs.php#2
U.S. Purchase Volume - Consumer vs.
Commercial Cards
PCI DSS Version 3.0
• Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data.
• Do not use vendor-supplied defaults or system passwords and other security parameters.
Build and Maintain a Secure Network and Systems
• Protect Stored Cardholder Data.
• Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public networks.
Protect Cardholder Data
• Protect all systems against malware and regularly update anti-virus software or programs.
• Develop and maintain security systems and applications.
Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program
PCI DSS Version 3.0
• Restrict access to cardholder data by business need to know.
• Identify and authenticate access to system components.
• Restrict physical access to cardholder data.
Implement Strong Access Control Measures
• Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data.
• Regularly test security systems and processes.
Regularly Monitor and Test Networks
• Maintain a policy that addresses information security for all personnel
Maintain an Information Security Policy
Merchant Scope
• Any organization that enters into a Merchant processing agreement with an acquirer will typically be signing a contract requiring that the Merchant fully comply with operating regulations outlined by the Payment Card Brands (Visa, MasterCard etc.). This includes full compliance with all requirements outlined within the PCI DSS and the requirement to report that compliance annually, irrespective of the organization’s processing volumes.
– Failing to comply with the PCI DSS, be it 1 control or many, would therefore be considered a breach of contract and provides the opportunity for the acquirer to levy contract based penalties.
This could include fines or termination of the contract.
– In addition to contractual compliance penalties, the merchant services contract also allows the acquirer to recover costs applied to them by the card brands resulting from a breach of any CHD by the Merchant.
• These contractual requirements therefore necessitate that Merchants assess and report their compliance as a complete entity for all areas where they collect or process CHD. It does not provide the ability for a Merchant to assess compliance on individual business processes.
• While Merchants may choose to outsource aspects of their business that relate to the processing of
Payment Card transactions or support of IT systems that store, process or transmit CHD, if the
organization maintains the acquirer Merchant ID for those transactions, they retain responsibility for
compliance with the PCI DSS.
Service Provider Scope
• Service Providers are any entity that performs functions on behalf Merchants, Issuers, Acquirers, Card Brands or even other Service Providers related to protection of CHD.
– This could include the full development, support, maintenance and management of the entire CHD processing environment (such as occurs with Web Development and Hosting providers)
– It could be as small as providing local or remote support for an application on a desktop that is part of the CDE or performing a process such as User Access Management or Vulnerability Scanning
• Compliance with the PCI DSS and subsequent reporting by Service Providers is determined by their contracts with their customers. It is up to the customer to determine how to monitor the compliance of their Service Provider.
• The scope of a Service Provider’s PCI DSS compliance assessment is driven by:
– The CHD they store, process or transmit on behalf of their customer; or – The system/process they support on behalf of their customer.
• Service Providers can assess services or products they provide individually to meet their customer’s
requirements, rather than perform an entire PCI DSS assessment over their complete environment.
PCI DSS Version 3.0: Changes Overview
The core 12 security areas remain the same, but the updates include several new sub-requirements that did not exist previously.
The updated standards will help organizations not by making the requirements more prescriptive, but by adding more flexibility and guidance for integrating card security into their business-as-usual activities.
The changes will provide increased stringency for validating that these controls have been implemented properly, with more rigorous and specific testing
procedures that clarify the level of validation the assessor is expected to perform.
Overall, the changes are designed to give organizations a strong but flexible security architecture with principles that can be applied to their unique technology, payment, and business environments.
Source: Data Security Standard and Payment Application Data Security Standard: Version 3.0 Change Highlights
The new standard Version 3 has brought with it policy and procedural changes that will
impact the security of the entire electronic payment ecosystem.
Challenge Areas
1 Lack of education and awareness around payment security
2 Weak passwords, authentication
3 Third-party security challenges
4 Slow self-detection, malware
PCI DSS Version 3.0: Change Drivers
5 Inconsistency in assessments
Common challenge areas and drivers for change include:
Source: Data Security Standard and Payment Application Data Security Standard: Version 3.0 Change Highlights
Key Takeaways
The bar for Segmentation is
raised
Point-to-point encryption as a
more valuable scope reduction
strategy
• This technology encrypts card data at the point of swipe and maintains that encryption all the way to the processor such that the merchant cannot ever decrypt the data.
• Use of point-to-point encryption
remains one of the most effective ways to reduce PCI scope.
Merchants and service providers alike will require time to address these new requirements and expanded scoping.
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Nevertheless, those entities that are able to implement the new rules effectively can gain competitive advantage and ensure better protection of personal payment information, as well as avoid serious reputational harm caused by unauthorized exposure of customers’ credit card data.
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The changes in PCI DSS 3.0 are likely to result in significant additional effort for companies processing credit card payments
Source: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FLASH REPORT-Understanding PCI DSS Version 3.0 – Key Changes and New Requirements