Bob Russo, General Manager, PCI Security Standards Council

This session will provide an update on PCI standards, guidance and resources for 2012 and strategies on how to effectively use these tools to plan ahead for PCI by building a security lifecycle into your everyday business.

Bob Russo, the general manager of the PCI Security Standards Council, works with representatives from American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa Inc to drive awareness and adoption of the PCI Data Security Standard. Russo is responsible for driving the organization’s policies, as well as meeting its goals to create education programs, establish pools of certified QSAs and ASVs, and incorporate feedback from all stakeholders across the payment chain into the work of the Council and the development of new standards. He oversees the PCI Security Standards Council's training, testing and certification programs for Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) and Approved Scanning Vendors (ASVs).

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