As announced earlier today, the Secure Payments Task Force published the Payment Lifecycles and Security Profiles (Off-site), educational materials outlining, the lifecycles, security characteristics and relevant laws and regulations for the most common payment types.
Developed through collaborative efforts of task force participants with diverse payments and security expertise and perspectives, the Payment Lifecycles and Security Profiles provide perspectives related to:
- The lifecycles of the most common payment types, covering enrollment, transaction flow and reconciliation
- Security methods, identity management controls and sensitive data occurring at each step in the payment lifecycles
- Relevant laws and regulations, and other references, as well as challenges and improvement opportunities related to each payment type
“We believe the profiles are a valuable tool for all payments providers to assess where they can enhance their operations and improve overall payment security practices,” said Christopher Danvers, vice president of payments and digital services for American Airlines Federal Credit Union, who co-chaired the work group responsible for the profiles. “Our hope is that this information can raise awareness and understanding of payments security and risk issues across the many types of organizations that have a hand in the payments system,” Danvers remarked.
“The task force brought together a diverse group of organizations that have many different capabilities and experience, all of which were critical to studying the entire payments ecosystem,” said Reed Luhtanen, senior director of payments strategy at Walmart, who co-chaired the group with Danvers. “The resulting profiles will be an incredibly valuable resource for merchants, financial institutions and other businesses to use in educating anyone in their companies who has a role in payments, whether in customer support, information technology or product development.”
“The task force has been an important forum for bringing focus to our collective security dialogue, creating a foundation for ongoing collaboration on specific security topics,” said Ken Montgomery, the Federal Reserve’s payments security strategy leader and chief operating officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. “The security challenges facing the payments industry require broad cooperation and coordination across the payments ecosystem. Strong stakeholder collaboration is key to maintaining public confidence in the U.S. payment system and keeping pace with the rapidly evolving and expanding threat environment.
Read the full press release for more details.