Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council has published guidelines for using the cloud for credit card processing. The PCI SSC introduced its Data Security Standards (DSS) for the cloud Thursday. The guidelines are expected to clear up the confusion that resulted from auditors giving different interpretations in applying pre-cloud standards to the modern computing platform. The next step will be having the guidelines for cloud environments incorporated in the software they use to set policies for maintaining compliance, an analyst said. For example, merchants are responsible for encryption and having proper login credentials for accessing data.”]