An international payments processing executive has maintainedthat a recent set of changes from the PCISecurity Standards Council should help merchants betterprotect their payment data from hackers.

In an interview with CU Times, Robert Martin, the vicepresident for security solutions at the Paris,France-based IngenicoGroup, praised the Security Standards Council's changes to therules that oversee the encryption of payment card data when amerchant wants to validate that encryption as part of its dataprotection effort.

The Wakefield, Mass.-based Data Security Standards Council setsstandards for different areas of the PCI DSS, and Martin stated itsprevious standard for PCI-validated encryption had acted as “abrake on its spread.”

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