Coffee with the Council By PCI Security Standards Council

Today, I'm excited to bring you a sneak peek interview with PCI SSC's 2026 North America Community Meeting Keynote Speaker, Sharon Gai. Sharon is a global expert in e-commerce, digital strategy, and cross-cultural innovation. After nearly a decade at Alibaba, where she guided international brands through China's dynamic digital marketplace, she now advises organizations across North America and be...

I'm excited to announce that the Council will open the nomination period for the next Global Executive Assessor Roundtable on June 1st. This roundtable, or GEAR as it's known, represents the perspectives of the PCI assessor community. Joining me to discuss what all of this means and how you can participate is the Council's own Chelsea Lopez, Client Engagement Operations Director.

Today I'm joined by a panel of current Principal Participating Organizations, or PPOs. The Principal PO program is one of three levels of participation with the Council and defined as a strategic level of leadership and influence with the Council. PPOs get access to exclusive strategy sessions with the Executive Committee, with PCI Council staff, and stakeholders to discuss standards direction, dr...

Hello and welcome to our podcast series,  Coffee with the Council . I'm Andrew Jamieson, VP, Distinguished Standards Architect for the PCI Security Standards Council. And I'll be your host today for an exciting panel discussion about the current state of cryptography. I'm joined today by some cryptography experts, who I originally brought together at the 2025 North America Community Me...

Well, it is hard to believe that we are already in February, but as we kick off 2026, we want to take a moment to also acknowledge all that the Council accomplished in 2025, including the recent release of the Council’s first-ever Annual Report. Joining me today to talk about this report and what we can expect in the year ahead is PCI SSC's Executive Director, Gina Gobeyn.

Welcome to the fifth season of our podcast series. The Council is off and running with its first major piece of news, and that is the publication of Secure Software Standard version 2.0. This is the first major revision to the Standard since it was introduced in 2019. Joining me today to talk about all that's new in the Standard and also what it means for the 3DS SDK Standard is Mike Thompson, Dir...

In today's episode, I am excited to announce that the Council will open the nomination period for the next Brazil Regional Engagement Board next month. Regional Engagement Boards serve as advisors to PCI SSC on payment data security issues in specific geographies and markets. Joining me to discuss what this all means and how you can participate is the Council's own Guilherme Scheibe, Regio...

Welcome to this very special edition of the  Coffee with the Council  podcast. This podcast will be in Japanese only. For non-Japanese-speaking audience, this podcast will be transcribed and translated to English on the PCI SSC webpage. 

Today, I am so excited to bring you a sneak peek interview with PCI SSC's Asia-Pacific Community Meeting keynote speaker, Sharon Gai. Sharon Gai is a global expert in e-commerce, digital strategy, and cross-cultural innovation. After nearly a decade at Alibaba, guiding global brands through China's digital market, she authored  E-Commerce Reimagined  and now helps companies bridge east and...

Today, I am so excited to bring you a sneak peek interview with PCI SSC's Europe Community Meeting Keynote Speaker, Bernie Collins. Bernie Collins is a Formula One Strategy Analyst and former Race Strategist, who has worked at the highest levels of motorsport, including Aston Martin. She specializes in decoding the complex world of F1 strategy, from tire choices and pit stops to race day decision...

Today, I am so excited to bring you a sneak peek interview with PCI SSC's North America Community Meeting Keynote Speaker, Reed Timmer. Dr. Reed Timmer is an extreme meteorologist and storm chaser, who specializes in intercepting the most powerful storms on the planet to collect valuable scientific data. You might know him from the Discovery Channel reality television series,  Storm Chasers ,...

In today's episode, I'm excited to announce that the Council is launching a new Regional Engagement Board for India and South Asia. Regional Engagement Boards serve as advisors to PCI SSC on payment data security issues in specific geographies and markets. This will be the Council's second REB, as it's commonly referred to, after launching in Brazil in 2018. Joining me to discuss w...

In this episode of Coffee with the Council , we’ll hear from Megan Shamas, Chief Marketing Officer at the FIDO Alliance as she discusses a solution to reducing the world’s reliance on passwords with the Council’s own Andrew Jamieson, VP, Distinguished Standards Architect. Together they will explore phishing-resistant authentication through the use of passkeys and a future where account takeover is...

As many of our listeners are aware, we are quickly approaching the deadline to adopt the future-dated requirements of PCI DSS version 4.0.1 on March 31st, 2025. Over the course of the last year, the Council has received feedback that more guidance was needed to properly implement some of the e-commerce security requirements in the standard, particularly Requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1. As such, the...

It is time once again to elect the Council's next Board of Advisors for the 2025 - 2027 term. Every two years, the Council invites its Principal and Associate Participating Organizations, as well as Affiliate Members to nominate and elect those companies who will serve as strategic leaders for the organization. Joining me today to talk all about what's new in this year's election proce...

Recently, PCI SSC published a new information supplement called  PCI DSS Scoping and Segmentation Guidance for Modern Network Architectures . This document was produced by the 2023 Special Interest Group, also called a SIG, who spent a year collaborating on this project, which was led by the Council's own Kandyce Young, Manager of Data Security Standards. I am joined by Kandyce today to help walk...

Today we'll meet one of the Council's newest employees, our Head of Product and Technology, Deanne Zettler. Deanne comes to the PCI SSC with more than 25 years of experience leading product and technology strategies, solutions and operations in financial services, including stops at Discover Financial Services and Silicon Valley Bank. Thank you for joining us today, Deanne, and welcome to the team...

Today, I am so excited to bring you a sneak peek interview with PCI SSC's Europe and Asia Pacific Community Meeting keynote speaker, Dr. Bruce McCabe, Global Futurist. Bruce has explored emerging technologies and how innovation happens for 30 years. He began his career at IBM in 1988 and went on to hold senior roles at IBM, WordPerfect, Novell, and Gartner. In 2002, he founded S2 Intelligence,...

Today, I am so excited to bring you a sneak peek interview with PCI SSC's North America Community Meeting Keynote Speaker, Tom Koulopoulos. Mr. Koulopoulos is Chairman and Founder of Delphi Group, a 30-year-old Boston-based Think Tank, named one of the fastest growing private companies by Inc. magazine, and the founding partner of AcroVantage Ventures, which invests in early-stage technology s...

In this episode, we'll meet three Qualified Security Assessors, or QSAs. A QSA company is a data security firm certified by the Council to perform on-site assessments of a company's PCI Data Security Standard compliance. This ensures that robust policies and procedures are in place to protect cardholder data. The QSA Program plays a critical role in the adoption of PCI security standards. 

Today we'll meet one of the Council's newest team members, our Head of Engagement, Diana Greenhaw. Diana comes to the PCI SSC after a successful 20-year career in payments that included stops at WorldPay, Visa, and Block. Thank you for joining us today, Diana, and welcome to the team.

At our Community Meetings in 2022, the Council announced a significant change to its Participating Organization program. Today, I am joined by the Council's Senior Vice President of Education and Engagement, Mark Meissner who has been spearheading this effort, and is going to talk about some of these changes over the past couple of years, and how the PO program has evolved. 

Today, I am joined by Lance Johnson, who has been the Executive Director of The Council for more than six years and a member of the payments industry for more than 40 years. In light of your recent retirement announcement, we're here to reflect on all the moments that have defined your distinguished career, Lance, and to of course, thank you for all of the contributions you've made to our...

Today I am thrilled to introduce the Council's new Executive Director, Gina Gobeyn. Gina joins PCI SSC following the announcement of Lance Johnson's retirement this year. As Executive Director, Gina will drive the organization's strategic direction, its operations, and oversee the PCI SSC senior leadership team and staff. I'm delighted to have you join us today, Gina.

Today I'm joined by three very amazing guests, and we will share a brief update of Asia-Pacific. First, we have Aileen Liu, who is the director of PAX Technology’s Payment Technology Department. Now, PAX Technology is one of the largest POS solution providers in the world, and PAX is also a PCI Principal Participating Organization. They are a PCI Board of Advisor member as well. Aileen is the...