Coffee with the Council By PCI Security Standards Council

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, a think tank to support organizational innovation through grounded research. He served as an independent advisor to a long list of multinationals, state and federal governments, universities, and science labs. When not speaking, he writes novels about the near future.

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 startups. He is also the author of 13 books, an Inc. .com columnist, the past executive director of the Babson College Center for Business Innovation, the past director of the Dell Innovation Lab, and a professor at Boston University.

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.