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Audio Conference Series:
Payments Card Industry Data Security: What You Need to Know to Ensure that your Institution is up to Industry Standards

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Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET
Featured Speakers: Paul Tomasofsky
Duration: 90 Minutes
Location: Your office or conference room
Prerequisites: None

Major credit card companies are mandating that merchants and service providers meet certain standards of security to ensure the safeguarding of customer information. According to Visa Inc., PCI compliance continued to grow in 2007 with more than three-fourths of the largest U.S. merchants and nearly two-third of medium-sized merchants validating their compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.

Attend Payments Card Industry Data Security Standard Fundamentals as our industry expert discusses the history of PCI and provides guidance that will ensure that your institution is up to industry standards. Our industry expert will cover the following topics:

  • Importance of protecting card and other payments data
  • Recent data breaches and what went wrong
  • Legislative, regulatory and legal actions regarding payments data security
  • History of VISA and MasterCard data security programs
  • The PCI Security Standards Council’s role in mitigating data security risks
  • The PCI Data Security Standard requirements
  • Overview of the compliance process, including self-assessments and external assessments and certification
  • And much more!

Registration Includes:

  • Admittance to a 90-minute call for as many people as you can fit in a room with a speakerphone
  • Access to the specially created presentation handouts (made available 48 hours in advance) which can be printed and used to train all of your front line personnel
  • Participation in the 30-minute live Q&A with the speaker following the presentation
  • Certificates of completion for all attendees

About Our Speaker

Paul Tomasofsky

Paul Tomasofsky, President, Two Sparrows Consulting, LLC is a well-known payment systems executive with over 25 years experience in retail financial services. Two Sparrows Consulting specializes in all aspects of small-value payment systems. Since its formation in 2002, Two Sparrows Consulting has advised numerous industry leading firms including First Data, NACHA, PULSE, MoneyGram, HSBC, The Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, BITS, VISA and MasterCard.

Mr. Tomasofsky specializes in operations analysis, strategic planning, training, competitive analysis, and product development. During the past five years he has consulted extensively on payments risk management, product positioning, outsourced procurement and operational topics. Before his current position, Mr. Tomasofsky was Vice President of Strategic Business Development for NYCE Corporation, Montvale, NJ.

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