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Our Mission
The mission of Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Vendor Alliance (SVA) is to provide products and services for the affected members of the payment card industry including retailers, E-commerce companies financial institutions, payment processors, POS vendors and any other organizations that must achieve compliance with the PCI Data Security Standards. The PCI SVA will also complement the objectives of the major card payment brands by helping educate the payment card industry about the business value of achieving PCI DSS compliance. Note: the PCI Security Vendor Alliance is NOT affiliated with the PCI Security Standards Council™.
Background
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. As vendors of security products and services that help enterprises achieve PCI compliance, the members of the PCI Security Vendor Alliance seek to build awareness of what is required to deliver a comprehensive solution. Collectively, the members of the PCI SVA 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.
Importance
The members of the PCI SVA 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. That is, even though 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 data, in all industries where such data is collected, communicated, processed or retained. One of the objectives of the PCI SVA is to help our customers adapt and extend the PCI DSS to embrace other sensitive data elements.
PCI SVA Overview
PCI SVA Overview Presentation .pdf format (810Kb)
