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 3.1 and Your Business If you own a business that accepts credit cards, becoming compliant with PCI DSS 3.1 is going to cost you up front. However, the cost of not becoming compliant will ...

PCI-DSS has been an official standard since 2004 and over the last 16 years has guided payment solutions developers and the merchants in protecting card holder data. With every breach the security ...

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 ...

In 2018, PCI Pal and Verizon published their first joint piece, Keep Calm and Descope, looking at the benefits of descoping organizational infrastructure to minimize the requirements of PCI DSS.

PCI DSS. Req. 5.1.2 - evaluate evolving malware threats for any systems not considered to be commonly affected Req. 8.2.3 - combined minimum password complexity and strength ...

PCI DSS is imperfect, but Ben Rothke and Anton Chuvakin say the standard is in security's best interest. Here they refute common complaints and criticisms of PCI DSS.

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published version 3.0 of the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) for debit and credit card ...

SAQ Type Type of Payment System; SAQ A: Card-not-present merchants (e-commerce or mail/telephone-order) that have fully outsourced all cardholder data functions to PCI DSS compliant third-party ...