Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCISSC) has commended Petrovice Resources International article published by ISACA Journal for meeting Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCIDSS) using a Cloud Service Provider.
The payment card industry (PCI) denotes the debit, credit, prepaid, e-purse, ATM, and POS cards and associated businesses.
The PCI Council formed a body of security standards known as the PCI Data Security Standards, (PCI DSS), and these standards consist of 12 significant requirements including multiple sub-requirements which contain numerous directives against which businesses may measure their own payment card security policies, procedures and guidelines.
By complying with qualified assessments of these standards, businesses can become accepted by the PCI Standards Council as compliant with the 12 requirements, and thus receive a compliance certification and a listing on the PCI Standards Council.
According to the Council, “Petrovice Resources being the first African in history to be recognized for its contribution to IT world especially in Cloud Computing and payment card industries, have brought honor to the African Continent and its people. Today, in Africa, every woman, man and child must feel proud of your achievement.”
Adesanya Ahmed, managing director, Petrovice Resources International, said the recognized is part of the realization of his dream to lift Nigeria in the Information and Communications Technology, noting that the achievement is the result of hard work.
Petrovice Resources International is a company incorporated in Nigeria to engage in modern Information Technology (IT) solutions, communications equipment and the provision of well secured broadband billing authentication.
The Company’s technical partners include Information System Engineering (ISE) of South Africa, a leading IT company in the world, Jumeirah Group among others.