On November 28th, the PCI Standards Security Council (SSC) announced the results of the PCI Council election for areas of study for the Special Interest Groups (SIGS), which leverages the expertise of more than 650 PCI SSC Participating Organizations into the work of the Council.  The PCI community; including merchants, financial institutions, service providers and associations; selected the following topics for the Special Interest Groups to explore in the coming year:

• Third Party Security Assurance (report expected in 2013)
• Best Practices for PCI DSS Compliance (report expected in 2014)

The findings in these upcoming reports could eventually be established as compliance requirements by PCI SSC.  The hospitality industry should be aware of potential changes to payment card security requirements and should incorporate any changes into PCI compliance training and PCI compliance programs.

A preferred approach to ensuring PCI compliance for hoteliers is through vigorous PCI compliance training and developing a reliable PCI compliance program.  Any such program should include custom learning solutions, such as PCI compliance training modules and similar training for hoteliers on best practices for using hospitality technology.

Learn more about the PCI Council’s election results – Click LINK