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What is PCI Compliance?

If your organization processes debit or credit card payments, you've likely heard the terms "PCI DSS" or "PCI SSC." These phrases refer to security measures for sensitive data — specifical ...
January 1, 2024
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What Does PCI DSS Stand For?

In the digital age, where every transaction and click leaves a footprint, the security of payment card information has never been more crucial. Enter PCI DSS, a standard that has become syno ...
December 28, 2023
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What is a PCI Gap Assessment?

A PCI DSS gap assessment (sometimes called a PCI gap analysis) examines a company’s cardholder data environment (CDE) to determine compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security S ...
December 28, 2023
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PCI DSS Requirements

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) protects cardholder and sensitive authentication data wherever merchants or service providers store, process, or transmit it. Estab ...
December 20, 2023
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Network Segmentation: Definition and Best Practices

2020 was not a good year for cybersecurity. In the first half of that year alone, ransomware (a special kind of malware) attacks increased by 715 percent from the prior year’s levels. A ...
December 10, 2023
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Why do Compliance Programs Fail?

Establishing compliance programs represents a significant undertaking for organizations across sectors. However, many such initiatives fail to achieve their goals despite substantial investm ...
December 4, 2023
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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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