PCI DSS Staff Awareness E-learning Course

Course overview

The PCI DSS Staff Awareness course

The PCI DSS is administered by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) to decrease payment card fraud across the Internet and increase the security of confidential payment card information.

Every organisation that stores, transmits or processes cardholder data must comply with the PCI DSS. Compliance is regulated and enforced by payment card brands (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, JCB and Discover) directly or through their partner relationships with ‘acquirer’ banks.

The PCI DSS requires organisations to “implement a formal security awareness program to make all personnel aware of the cardholder data security policy and procedures” (Requirement 12.6).

Course objective

This course is designed to increase employees’ awareness of the PCI DSS requirements and provide clear and simple explanations of what organisations and individual employees must do to meet those requirements.

Target audience

This web-delivered course is targeted at all employees in any organisation that stores, transmits or processes cardholder data, and that must comply with the PCI DSS.

The benefits of e-learning

• Provides systematic, consistent and repeatable training.
• There are no travelling or other course attendance costs, as learners study from their desks and around their existing workload.
• Delivered over the Internet, so there are no additional technology or integration costs or challenges.
• Can be deployed for existing employees and as part of an induction process for new starters.
• Cost-effective: multi-user licences and multi-year contracts are available upon request.

Course contents

The PCI DSS Staff awareness course contents:

• An introduction to the PCI DSS - What is it? Why do I need to know about the PCI DSS?
• PCI DSS definitions - Merchant; Payment brand; Payment card; Service provider
• Cardholder account data
  • Cardholder data
  • Sensitive authentication data
• PCI DSS requirements - Requirements 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12
• Application of the PCI DSS
• Application scenarios to test understanding of the PCI DSS

Course Features

Duration

The course will take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

Assessment

The course assessment will include 20 randomly selected multiple-choice questions. 

Retake

The course can be retaken as many times as needed until the pass mark has been achieved. 

Certificate

A certificate will be issued to all staff that pass the test and will display their test score.

Additional Features

• Customisation options

  As well as our off-the-shelf e-learning courses, we offer customised staff awareness e-learning courses. For more complex organisations that need an even greater level of control over course content, we also provide a fully bespoke service. Find out more >> 

• Hosting options

  The course can be hosted and delivered from our LMS or from your own. Find out more >>

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What's the difference between individual licences and corporate licences?

Individual licences

• Individual e-learning licences are best suited to small organisations that require easy and immediate implementation of staff awareness solutions. 
• You can purchase up to 10 individual e-learning licences at a time.
• You can assign licences to your staff via your My Account area.

Corporate licences

• Corporate e-learning licences are best suited to organisations that require full oversight of the implementation and uptake of their staff awareness programme.
• This option allows you to monitor course and exam completion, including exam scores, and export reports to demonstrate your organisation’s collective understanding of the subject.
• You can also customise the look and feel of the learning management system (LMS) area for a more corporate learning experience.
• You can purchase up to 250 individual e-learning licences at a time.
• You can assign the licences to your staff via the learning management system (LMS).