Coffee with the Council By PCI Security Standards Council

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Coffee with the Council Podcast: Meet the Council’s New Head of Product and Technology Oct 07, 2024

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Today we'll meet one of the Council's newest employees, our Head of Product and Technology, Deanne Zettler. Deanne comes to the PCI SSC with more than 25 years of experience leading product and technology strategies, solutions and operations in financial services, including stops at Discover Financial Services and Silicon Valley Bank. Thank you for joining us today, Deanne, and welcome to the team.

Coffee with the Council Podcast: Meet This Year’s Europe and Asia-Pacific Community Meeting Keynote Speaker, Dr. Bruce McCabe Aug 13, 2024

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Today, I am so excited to bring you a sneak peek interview with PCI SSC's Europe and Asia Pacific Community Meeting keynote speaker, Dr. Bruce McCabe, Global Futurist. Bruce has explored emerging technologies and how innovation happens for 30 years. He began his career at IBM in 1988 and went on to hold senior roles at IBM, WordPerfect, Novell, and Gartner. In 2002, he founded S2 Intelligence, a think tank to support organizational innovation through grounded research. He served as an independent advisor to a long list of multinationals, state and federal governments, universities, and science labs. When not speaking, he writes novels about the near future.

Coffee with the Council Podcast: Meet This Year’s North America Community Meeting Keynote Speaker, Tom Koulopoulos Jul 29, 2024

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Today, I am so excited to bring you a sneak peek interview with PCI SSC's North America Community Meeting Keynote Speaker, Tom Koulopoulos. Mr. Koulopoulos is Chairman and Founder of Delphi Group, a 30-year-old Boston-based Think Tank, named one of the fastest growing private companies by Inc. magazine, and the founding partner of AcroVantage Ventures, which invests in early-stage technology startups. He is also the author of 13 books, an Inc. .com columnist, the past executive director of the Babson College Center for Business Innovation, the past director of the Dell Innovation Lab, and a professor at Boston University.

Coffee with the Council Podcast: Meet Three Qualified Security Assessors Who Completed the Council’s AQSA Mentorship Program and Advanced Their Careers Jul 08, 2024

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In this episode, we'll meet three Qualified Security Assessors, or QSAs. A QSA company is a data security firm certified by the Council to perform on-site assessments of a company's PCI Data Security Standard compliance. This ensures that robust policies and procedures are in place to protect cardholder data. The QSA Program plays a critical role in the adoption of PCI security standards.

Coffee with the Council Podcast: Meet the Council’s New Head of Engagement Jun 18, 2024

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Today we'll meet one of the Council's newest team members, our Head of Engagement, Diana Greenhaw. Diana comes to the PCI SSC after a successful 20-year career in payments that included stops at WorldPay, Visa, and Block. Thank you for joining us today, Diana, and welcome to the team.

Coffee with the Council Podcast: Help Shape the Future of Payment Security as a PCI SSC Participating Organization Apr 25, 2024

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At our Community Meetings in 2022, the Council announced a significant change to its Participating Organization program. Today, I am joined by the Council's Senior Vice President of Education and Engagement, Mark Meissner who has been spearheading this effort, and is going to talk about some of these changes over the past couple of years, and how the PO program has evolved.

Coffee with the Council Podcast: A Reflection on 40 Years in the Payments Industry Mar 25, 2024

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Today, I am joined by Lance Johnson, who has been the Executive Director of The Council for more than six years and a member of the payments industry for more than 40 years. In light of your recent retirement announcement, we're here to reflect on all the moments that have defined your distinguished career, Lance, and to of course, thank you for all of the contributions you've made to our industry.

Coffee with the Council Podcast: Meet the Council’s New Executive Director Gina Gobeyn Feb 29, 2024

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Today I am thrilled to introduce the Council's new Executive Director, Gina Gobeyn. Gina joins PCI SSC following the announcement of Lance Johnson's retirement this year. As Executive Director, Gina will drive the organization's strategic direction, its operations, and oversee the PCI SSC senior leadership team and staff. I'm delighted to have you join us today, Gina.

Coffee with the Council Podcast: A Panel Discussion from Asia-Pacific Hosted by Yew Kuann Cheng Feb 02, 2024

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Today I'm joined by three very amazing guests, and we will share a brief update of Asia-Pacific.

First, we have Aileen Liu, who is the director of PAX Technology’s Payment Technology Department. Now, PAX Technology is one of the largest POS solution providers in the world, and PAX is also a PCI Principal Participating Organization. They are a PCI Board of Advisor member as well. Aileen is the primary point of contact representing PAX in both groups.

Next, we have Gilbert Chu, who is the Chief Operating Officer for LGMS. They are a regional QSA and ASV or PCI Approved Scanning Vendor for short. It's based out of Malaysia. Gilbert is a QSA professional, and an expert in IT security with more than 15 years of experience.

And last, and certainly not the least, we have Stuart Campbell, who is the Head of Customer Success and a key leader for Quasar Scan, a solution provider based in New Zealand. And they provide a tool that is able to discover sensitive data that is stored within your environment. Quasar Scan is also a PCI Associate PO.

Coffee with the Council Podcast: EMVCo and PCI SSC Present: A Discussion on Mobile Payments Nov 27, 2023

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Today I'm joined by my co-host for the day, Director of Communications, Simon Kleine, at EMVCo. And we're having a conversation with Arman Aygen, Director of Technology at EMVCo, and PCI Security Standard Council's VP of Solution Standards, Andrew Jamieson. Today, we're going to be talking about the valuable partnership and collaboration between EMVCo and PCI SSC. We're going to take a deeper dive into mobile payments, including Tap to Mobile, and also PCI SSC's MPoC standard. Let's kick off by taking a moment to explain the relationship between our two organizations, EMVCo and PCI SSC.