On April 10, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council ("PCI SSC") issued an updated payment card production standard that will help better secure payment cards. The updated requirements secure the card production process from design through delivery and address various card production activities, including card manufacturing, chip embedding, data preparation, pre-personalization and card personalization, fulfillment, packaging, storage, and electronic PIN distribution. On April 15, the PCI SSC also published Version 3.1 of its data security standard, which addresses vulnerabilities within the Secure Sockets Layer encryption protocol that can put payment data at risk.
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