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What is PCI DSS certification?
There is no PCI DSS certificate, per se, because credit card and cardholder data security—the focus of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard—is an ongoing process, not a one-a ...
November 28, 2023
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What is PCI PA-DSS?
The Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) is a program designed to help companies like software vendors build secure payment applications that don’t store “prohibited data, ...
November 28, 2023
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What is PCI SAQ?
The PCI Data Security Standard Self-Assessment Questionnaire (PCI SAQ) is a crucial tool in the arsenal of merchants and service providers navigating the Payment Card Industry Data Security ...
November 22, 2023
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What is a PCI RoC (Report on Compliance)?
According to Verizon’s 2022 Payment Security Report, only 43% of businesses achieved complete compliance during their PCI DSS compliance assessment. As a result, over half of companies and ...
November 22, 2023
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What Are the PCI DSS Password Requirements?
PCI DSS is the cybersecurity standard that retailers must follow to assure the security of their customers’ credit card data. PCI DSS has many components, but among the most critical is a ...
November 20, 2023
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What Is the PCI DSS Attestation of Compliance?
Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) can be challenging for many retailers and other businesses that process payment card transactions. So sometimes the ...
November 7, 2023
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Do Banks Need to be PCI Compliant?
Financial institutions are one of the most heavily regulated industries around, and for good reason. Access to the personal information and funds of their customers makes banks a popular tar ...
November 6, 2023
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What Are the PCI Audit Log Retention Requirements?
Generating an audit trail is not just good practice but is also integral to achieving PCI compliance, which stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). This standard i ...
November 6, 2023
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What is PCI Compliance Level 2?
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Level 2 merchants process between 1 and 6 million Visa, Mastercard, and Discover transactions yearly, 50,000 to 2 million American ...
November 6, 2023
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What Are NIST Controls and How Many Are There?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is a U.S. government agency that publishes cybersecurity frameworks organizations can use to strengthen their internal controls and complia ...
November 6, 2023
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What is PCI Compliance Level 3?
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard’s (PCI DSS) compliance Level 3 applies to mid-size merchants that, generally speaking, process between 20,000 and 1 million credit card tra ...
November 6, 2023
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Who Needs PCI DSS Compliance?
If you are a company that processes debit or credit card payments online or in person, you may have heard of “PCI DSS” or the “PCI SSC.” These terms are related to security controls ...
November 6, 2023