To enhance security standards to protect customer payment data in the context of increasing e-commerce, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council has announced it has released version 3.0 Payment Application Data Security Standards (PA-DSS) and version 3.0 of the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI-SS), which will become effective from 1 January 2014.

In a bid to help organisations better understand their compliance obligations under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) when using cloud technology to collect, store or transmit credit card data, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published the PCI DSS Cloud Computing Guidelines Information Supplement.

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