Cardholder Information Security Program
Encyclopedia
The Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) was a program established by Visa
USA to ensure the security of cardholder information as it is being processed and stored by merchants and service providers.
CISP has since been superseded by the PCI Data Security Standard
, a multi-vendor initiative to tackle Payment Card Industry security issues.
VISA (credit card)
Visa Inc. is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered on 595 Market Street, Financial District in San Francisco, California, United States, although much of the company's staff is based in Foster City, California. It facilitates electronic funds transfers throughout...
USA to ensure the security of cardholder information as it is being processed and stored by merchants and service providers.
CISP has since been superseded by the PCI Data Security Standard
PCI DSS
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is an information security standard for organizations that handle cardholder information for the major debit, credit, prepaid, e-purse, ATM, and POS cards....
, a multi-vendor initiative to tackle Payment Card Industry security issues.
External links
- PCI Data Security Standard
- PCI Answers Blog and Forum Different PCI experts demystifying the experience of compliance
- Cardholder Information Security Program
- CISP Overview
- PCI/CISP is addressed in the Holistic Operational Readiness Security Evaluation (HORSE) project Wiki, see HORSE