PCI DSS – A Guide to the Key Legal Issues

http://www.bcs.org/content/conEvent/6234

Organiser: Information Risk Management and Assurance Specialist Group
Speaker: Sam De Silva

A light buffet will be available from 6.00pm.

Whilst starting off as “just” an information security standard, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (“PCI” or “PCI Standard”) now presents a number of legal challenges and risk for retailers and service providers.

This session discusses the:
legal framework and implications of PCI – including the “PCI Contract Chain” problems with the PCI Standard in the legal context; and actions that merchants should explore to reduce legal risk arising out of PCI.

Dr Sam De Silva is Partner at leading law firm Manches LLP. Sam is the Head of IT and Outsourcing at Manches LLP. He has been published widely, speaks regularly on outsourcing and technology law topics and is on the Law Society’s Technology and Law Committee. In addition to his LLB and Masters in Business Law, Sam has post-graduate degrees in information technology and business administration so is well aware of the commercial, business and technical issues facing both users and suppliers of technology. Sam is also one of very few solicitors who is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS), Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a Chartered IT Professional (CITP). Sam also has in-house industry legal experience having been seconded to Accenture UK as a senior legal counsel.

Bookings for this event will open approximately 3 weeks before the start date.