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The PCI Security Standards Council operates programs to train, test, and qualify organizations and individuals who assess and validate compliance, to help merchants successfully implement PCI standards and solutions.
The PCI DSS defines security requirements to protect environments where payment account data is stored, processed, or transmitted. PCI DSS provides a baseline of technical and operational requirements designed to protect payment account data.
The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, which is made up of members from five major credit card companies, established rules and regulations known as PCI compliance.
PCI DSS is a set of baseline technical and operational requirements designed to protect payment account data. It is intended for all entities that store, process, or transmit cardholder data (CHD) and/or sensitive authentication data (SAD), or could impact the security of CHD and/or SAD.
If you are a merchant of any size accepting credit cards, you must be in compliance with PCI Security Council standards. This site provides: credit card data security standards documents, PCIcompliant software and hardware, qualified security assessors, technical support, merchant guides and more.
Guidance for maintaining payment security is provided in PCI security standards. These set the technical and operational requirements for organizations accepting or processing payment transactions, and for software developers and manufacturers of applications and devices used in those transactions. See the standards.
PCI or payment card industry compliance are the standards that businesses must follow to protect credit cardholder data. There are 12 requirements.
Step 1: Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data. A firewall is the first line of defense for any network. Installing a firewall not only protects your cardholder data—but it also prevents unauthorized access for connections like e-commerce systems, email communication, and internet access.
PCI DSS compliance comes from meeting the obligations laid down by these requirements in the way best suited to your organization, and the PCI Security Standards Council gives you the tools...
Requirement 1: Install and maintain network security controls. Network security controls (NSCs) are policy enforcement points that control traffic between two or more subnets based on predetermined rules. Examples of network security controls include firewalls and VPNs.