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The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) was formed by American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard and Visa Inc. on September 7, 2006, [1] with the goal of managing the ongoing evolution of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an information security standard used to handle credit cards from major card brands.The standard is administered by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, and its use is mandated by the card brands.
The payment card industry consists of all the organizations which store, process and transmit cardholder data, most notably for debit cards and credit cards.The security standards are developed by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council which develops the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards used throughout the industry.
PCI (Project Concern International) is a non-profit, humanitarian NGO based in San Diego, California.PCI reaches nearly 19 million people a year through programs in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
PCI-SIG, or Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group, is an electronics industry consortium responsible for specifying the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), PCI-X, and PCI Express (PCIe) computer buses.
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) [3] is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard. The PCI bus supports the functions found on a processor bus but in a standardized format that is independent of any given processor's native bus.
Founded in 1962, PCI is consistently ranked by fee income among the largest independent (non-advertising agency owned) firms in the United States and Chicago. [1] The agency is also among the largest certified Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) public relations agencies in the United States.
A PCI Express link between two devices consists of one or more lanes, which are dual simplex channels using two differential signaling pairs. [6]: 3 PCI Express devices communicate via a logical connection called an interconnect [10] or link.