Certification Knowledge Domains
The CPISM curriculum covers subject matter in a variety of Information Security and Payments Industry topics. The CPISM examination is based on what a collection of topics relevant to payment industry security professionals. The CPISM Knowledge Domains establishes a common framework of payment industry terms and definitions that allow security professionals to discuss and debate matters pertaining to the profession with a common understanding.
The CPISM Knowledge Domains are:
- Payment card industry structure
- Payment card structure and data
- Payment card transaction processing
- Compromise fraud statistics and trends
- Merchant risk analysis
- Laws and the regulatory environment
- Payment card security programs
- Third party relationships
Read more about this topic: Certified Payment-Card Industry Security Manager
Famous quotes containing the words knowledge and/or domains:
“It’s that—the thought of the few, simple things we want and the knowledge that we’re going to get them in spite of you know Who and His spites and tempers—that keeps us living I think.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“I shall be a benefactor if I conquer some realms from the night, if I report to the gazettes anything transpiring about us at that season worthy of their attention,—if I can show men that there is some beauty awake while they are asleep,—if I add to the domains of poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)