It’s going to be called the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard 2.0, and the full-blown text of this upcoming standard that governs how businesses must guard sensitive cardholder information on their networks will be out at the beginning of September, according to the organization in charge of it.
Would PCI compliance help or hurt cloud computing security?
There won’t be major changes from the current DSS 1.2, according to Bob Russo, general manager of the PCI Security Standards Council. But DSS v. 2.0 will seek to clarify what the PCI requirements mean in terms of enterprise security.