What you'll learn

There is a reason that criminals steal payment card data. It is because they can turn the stolen data into money. In this course, The PCI Payment Ecosystem, you'll discover how a payment card transaction gets from the store to your statement and in the process learn about the electronic messages that move between the banks and payment card schemes. First, you'll find out how a face-to-face transaction works, the data that criminals can steal to make fraudulent transactions, and how chip transactions prevent this. Next, you’ll follow an e-commerce transaction, discover the data that makes a transaction work, and how the 3DS secure protocol devalues this data. Finally, you'll explore the new types of transactions that use payment card data, but not payment cards! By the end of this course, you'll understand how the payment system works and the evolving protocols used to make payments more secure.