PCI DSS 4.0 is coming—fast. Don’t spend the next two years ignoring what should be a top priority within your organization.

What is PCI DSS compliance? Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) compliance ensures companies adhere to a set of 12 requirements developed by the PCI Security Standards Council.

Learn more about PCI DSS 4.0 and its impact on organizations in 2025 in this Q&A. As of April 1, 2025, all merchants and third-party service providers (TPSPs) involved in processing credit or ...

PCI DSS provides detailed guidelines for merchants to make the compliance process manageable and successful. Initially, merchants have to complete an annual PCI self-assessment questionnaire.

PCI DSS 4.0 often requires a team approach involving several departments to address different aspects, including legal, compliance, procurement, vendor management, and IT or IT security.

Lance Johnson, executive director of PCI SSC, said: “The industry has had unprecedented visibility into, and impact on, the development of PCI DSS v4.0. Our stakeholders provided substantial, ...

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) will start enforcing requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 under the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) beginning March 31, 2025. These changes will impact ...

At the end of this year, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is expected to get an upgrade to version 4.0. It has been around since 2001 and isn’t getting as much ...

According to Forbes, experts say this new version, which is the “most impactful transformation of the standard since version 2.0 over a decade ago, introduces several changes, transitions and ...

The 2022 PSR found that overall PCI DSS compliance improved significantly in 2020, with 43.4% of organizations maintaining full compliance, a 15.5% improvement over the record low of 27.9% in 2019.

The university is required to comply with all relevant standards. However, not all of the PCI DSS requirements are relevant to UB. Certain university policies reduce the compliance scope, including ...