Sam Pfanstiel

QSA (P2PE), QPA, SSF SSA, SSLCA, Director, Security Consulting Services, Viking Cloud

As practice director of encryption and application services at Viking Cloud, Mr. Pfanstiel has 25 years of senior IT management and security experience, with specialties in payments, cryptography, application security, risk, and compliance. His credentials include CISSP, CISM, CISA, QSA(P2PE), QPA, SSF SSA and SSLCA. Mr. Pfanstiel is an influential member of PCI SIGs and Task Forces, and active on other industry committees such as ETA and Conexxus. He holds an MBA in eBusiness and is currently completing his Ph.D.

Sam Pfanstiel's Events

Leveraging Changes in P2PE v3 to Solve Solution Provider Challenges

Date: Thursday, October 28

Presented by: Brandon Audisio, Director of Product Engineering, POS Portal, A ScanSource Company; Melissa Medeiros, Security Product Development Manager, Global Payments Inc. and Sam Pfanstiel, QSA (P2PE), QPA, SSF SSA, SSLCA, Director, Security Consulting Services, Viking Cloud

Implementing P2PE can be difficult for any organization but bringing legacy processes and systems into P2PE compliance can be especially challenging. In this session, hear from processing experts on how they empowered their teams to leverage changes to P2PE v3 to overcome unique challenges. This case study will take you into a virtual whiteboarding session where product, infrastructure, and encryption teams discuss how program changes helped them integrate disparate systems in this solution.