The Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) was a program established by
Visa
Visa most commonly refers to:
*Visa Inc., a US multinational financial and payment cards company
** Visa Debit card issued by the above company
** Visa Electron, a debit card
** Visa Plus, an interbank network
*Travel visa, a document that allows ...
USA in 2001 to ensure the security of cardholder information as it is being processed and stored by merchants and service providers.
As of 2004, CISP has been superseded by the
PCI Data Security Standard, a multi-vendor initiative to tackle Payment Card Industry security issues.
About CISP
The CISP program was developed to protect Visa's cardholder data, regardless of their location, as well as to ensure that members, merchants, and service providers maintain the highest level of information security. All trade and service enterprises and services that store, process or transmit data on Visa cardholders were required to be compliant with the program. CIS concerned all payment channels, including physical retail trading and e-commerce. Having taken as the basis the PCI DSS standard, CISP offered tools and measures to protect against data breach and compromising payment cards.
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External links
PCI Data Security Standard*PCI/CISP is addressed in the
Holistic Operational Readiness Security Evaluation (HORSE) project Wiki, se
HORSE
Credit card issuer associations