About Us: Vision

Merchants, financial institutions, card processors and other organizations that must comply with the PCI DSS have to implement a wide variety of security products and services in order to achieve compliance. The members of the PCI Security Alliance seek to build awareness of what is required to deliver a comprehensive solution. Collectively, the we offer merchants, financial institutions and card processors a wide range of alternative products to help them achieve PCI DSS compliance. As the Alliance grows, its membership will provide multiple options to help organizations achieve compliance with all applicable requirements.

The members of the PCI SA have reviewed all of various national, state and industry data security and privacy regulations, and we have concluded that the PCI DSS represent the absolute most specific, comprehensive set of data security and privacy requirements available anywhere, and are applicable as a set of guidelines for protecting confidential data throughout the value chain of ANY industry. Although the PCI DSS are aimed at a single industry and focus specifically on credit card data, we believe these same standards are applicable to the protection of all classes of sensitive or confidential information, in all industries where such information is collected, communicated, processed or retained. One of the objectives of the PCI SA is to help our customers adapt and extend the PCI DSS to embrace other sensitive data elements.