Vote Now: Why Retailers Really Should Help Select PCI SIGs
Written by Walter ConwayOctober 26th, 2011
PCI Columnist Walter Conway argues that this is a good week for every retailer's IT, security and business departments, because they will have a relatively rare chance to sharply influence PCI issues. The PCI Council's Special Interest Group (SIG) nominees for the coming year are coming up, and these folks have a key vote. The reason is that the Council has a short list of seven proposed SIGs, only three of which will be selected. Which three are chosen is solely based on the votes of Participating Organizations. Retailers will make their voices heard by voting for their three top choices. Whichever nominees the Participating Organizations decide to support with their votes, it will need to be done quickly: Online voting starts this week and ends November 4.
There are two changes to the SIGs this year. One change is that a Council staffer will lead the SIG (previously, the chair was a member of the PCI Council's Board of Advisors). The other change is that each SIG must complete its work in one year. In years past, SIGs could—and sometimes did—run indefinitely, becoming a source of frustration for everyone. The changes should mean each SIG is focused on delivering results.
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October 27th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Based on my experience, if all the SIG’s run like the tokenization SIG was, I’m not sure the point. They either ignore the feedback and do what they want anyway or only pay attention to the big payers (I’m not sure?).
November 1st, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Steve’s right – it’s a ‘token’ gesture. Seriously, it’s great the sponsoring orgs will get a voice, but that’s a tiny consolation prize. I like the 1 year requirement for completion, but if the PCI council can fold a SIG and ignore the advice of the merchants-vendors-providers, there’s not much value being provided.
November 2nd, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Its just a shame the QSA’s can’t vote on the SIGS. We constantly get asked “whats the SIG going to be about?” I think its really important to have QSAs involved in the SIG from inception so that strange ambiguities can be avoided in the wording of papers issued by SIGs.