Payment Card Assessments | Third Party
By:
ERIC SAMPSON
December 10th, 2014
The PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) recently published an information supplement on third-party security assurance that provides a set of guidelines for understanding how to manage third-party service provider (TPSP) relationships and PCI DSS compliance requirements. The guidance applies to entities who use or are considering the use of TPSPs and to the TPSPs themselves, who have access to, or can impact the security of cardholder data (CHD) or the cardholder data environment (CDE). The SSC defines an entity as any organization that has the responsibility to protect card data and may leverage a TPSP to support them in card-processing activities or to secure card data.