PCI Compliance: Who Manages What?

Data Center Knowledge Apr 6 2010 Monitoring , Cloud Computing

Potential data center customers often ask data center operators if they are “PCI Compliant.” There has been some confusion surrounding the answer to this question. Data center providers normally do not have anything to do with their customer’s sensitive information handling procedures. To clarify and answer the PCI question, let’s discuss the responsibilities of the data center and the responsibilities of the merchant or service provider (data center customer). What exactly is PCI compliance? PCI DSS is an abbreviation for PCI Data Security Standard, the worldwide information security standard set by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council to help control and minimize points of risk to fraud or compromise of sensitive information.

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