Hello everyone.
My name is John Elliott.
Welcome to my course, Payment Card Security, Processing, and the PCI Standards.
I've been working in payment security for about 12 years. In that time,
I've been a PCI qualified security assessor and also worked for large
merchants, getting them compliant with PCI DSS.
I worked for two of the major card brands and was their representative on the
Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, which means that I had the
pleasure of contributing to many of the PCI standards, including PCI DSS and
the point‑to‑point encryption standards.
I developed this course to include all the information I
wish I knew when I started in the industry.
So we're going to find out how a transaction that you make in store
or online appears on your payment card statement.
We're going to look at the data messages exchanged between all the
participants in the payment system and then discover how criminals can
take these stolen messages and turn them into money.
Some of the major topics that we will cover include what
payment card data moves around the world, what's the point of
all the different PCI standards,
the EMV standards for secure payment technologies, who cares
whether you are compliant with the PCI standard,
which assessor to use to validate your compliance, and
how to become a PCI professional.
By the end of this course,
you will understand how the PCI standards are designed to
protect payment card data from criminals.
There are no prerequisites. And from here, you'll be more confident working on
payment projects and on PCI projects. You'll also have about 40% of the
information you need to pass the PCI Professional exam.
I do hope you'll join me on this journey to learn the wonders of the
payment system with the Payment Card Security, Processing, and the PCI
Standards course here, at Pluralsight.