Defines a standard of due care and enforcement for protecting cardholder information.

The Visa CISP program ensures that its merchants, payment companies and acquiring banks meet high security standards for card not present transactions. The industry-wide standards require that sensitive credit card data is protected when presented to merchants through direct mail, over the telephone or online. The standards were established to help lower the risk of fraud and improve consumer confidence. Payment Processing, Inc. has been CISP compliant since March 2003.

Visa’s security program designed to enforce protection of cardholder information.