The PCI Knowledge Base is the largest Independent Research Community of organizations focused on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) , it's Data Security Standards (DSS) , as well as the business processes, technologies and issues relating to the security of payment data and how these standards relate to other data security and compliance topics, such as Sarbanes-Oxley , HIPAA , CobiT , COSO , ITIL , and the impact of security breaches , identity theft and credit card fraud .  The CORE of the PCI Knowledge Base is our proprietary "Research Database" which is built from about 300 hours of 100% anonymous interviews with merchants, acquiring and issuing banks, card processors, service providers, application vendors, security technology vendors, PCI assessors (QSAs) and payment industry consultants.

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