Payment Card Industry (PCI)

Policy for promoting compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). PCI DSS is an industry standard, accepted internationally by all major credit card issuers and is enforced on companies and organizations that accept credit card payments or process, store, or transmit cardholder data. The standard includes the mandate that credit card numbers and cardholder data should be highly secured and that transactions comprising PCI data should be encrypted.