What is PCI Compliance?

PCI Compliance refers to the set of requirements that businesses and organizations must meet to ensure the secure handling of credit card information. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of security standards established by major credit card companies to help protect against credit card fraud and data breaches.

What is PCI compliance checklist?

A PCI compliance checklist is a tool that helps organizations ensure they are meeting the requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The checklist includes requirements and best practices businesses must follow to achieve compliance, such as network security, data protection, access control, monitoring, and policy requirements.

To Whom Does The PCI DSS Apply?

PCI DSS applies to any organization that accepts, transmits, or stores cardholder data, regardless of size or number of transactions.

What is the difference between CHD and SAD?

Account data is organized into two groups: Card Holder Data (CHD) and Sensitive Authentication Data (SAD). CHD includes data elements like Primary Account Number (PAN), Cardholder Name, Service Code, and Expiration Date, which identify the cardholder. SAD includes elements such as Track Data, CVV, CVC, CAV, CID, and PIN/PIN Block, which are used for authorizing cardholder transactions.

If I am using a third-party to process payments, or an ecommerce platform, do I still need to worry about PCI compliance?

Yes, even if some payment processes are outsourced and may reduce your risk or scope for PCI compliance, your business is still responsible for ensuring PCI DSS requirements are met.

If I only accept credit cards over the phone, does PCI DSS still apply to me?

Yes. Any processing, storing, or transmitting of payment cardholder data, including over the phone, must be done in a PCI compliant environment.

PCI Software Security Standard Certification

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PCI SSS is the revised version for the previous PA DSS standard The new standard is coupled with PCI SLC to form PCI SSF altogether. The standard applies to the security characteristics, controls,features, and functionalities that payment software must possess and maintain throughout its lifecycle.

Secure Software Standards consist of two parts,

Secure Software Core Requirements
Module A Account Data Protection.

The standard focuses on ensuring that applications are maintained in a manner that protects payment transactions and data, minimizing the vulnerabilities, and defending itself from any security attacks.

Validation against PCI SSS helps assure that Payment Software is developed with security to protect the integrity of the software and the confidentiality of sensitive data it captures, stores, processes, and transmits. Adhering to PCI SSS will ease the organization to verify the software is properly configured and meets applicable PCI DSS requirements.

What We Offer

The key to implementing robust security controls lies in identifying the right scope, recognizing the difference between compliance and security and in sustaining compliance after successful control implementation.

Business Understanding

Evaluating business process and environment to understand the in-scope elements

Scope Finalization

Finalize the scope elements and prepare the requirement documentation

Readiness Assessment

Identify the potential challenges that might arise during requirement implementation

Risk Assessment

Identifying and analyzing the risks in the information security posture.

Secure Code Review

Conduct code review with automated & manual approach to identify system vulnerabilities

PCI SSS Documentation Support

Assist you with list of policy and procedure to help you in validation or evidence collection

Remediation Support

Support you by recommending solutions to compliance challenges

Awareness Training

Conduct awareness sessions for your Team and personnel involved in the scope

Scans And Testing

Identify critical vulnerabilities in your system with a robust testing approach

Evidence Review

Review of the evidence collected to assess their maturity, in line with the compliance

Final Assessment and Attestation

Post successful assessment, we get you attested for compliance with our audit team

Continuous Compliance Support

Support you in maintaining compliance by providing guidelines

frequently asked questions

How Do The Objective-Based" Requirements In The Software Security Framework Differ From Those In The PA-DSS?

The procedures and security controls that must be used to achieve a specific security target are specified by PA-DSS regulations. The SSF is in favour of the Customized Approach in PCI DSS version 4.0 and the PCI 3-D Secure (3DS) security standards, which describe security criteria as security objectives and allow for more flexibility in how requirements are accomplished.

This method, known as "goal-based," acknowledges that there are frequently numerous approaches to achieve a specific security aim.

PCI Software Security Standard Certification

What We Offer

Business Understanding

Scope Finalization

Readiness Assessment

Risk Assessment

Secure Code Review

PCI SSS Documentation Support

Remediation Support

Awareness Training

Scans And Testing

Evidence Review

Final Assessment and Attestation

Continuous Compliance Support

frequently asked questions

How Do The Objective-Based" Requirements In The Software Security Framework Differ From Those In The PA-DSS?

Related Updates

PCI SSC updates the PCI Secure Software Program v1.2.

How To Transition From PA DSS To PCI SSF: A Guide - Part 2.

How To Transition From PA DSS To PCI SSF: A Guide - Part 1.

Six distinctions between the PCI SSF and the PA-DSS.

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