At a client site recently I was watching a customer service rep as she performed her duties during a PCI DSS interview, and noticed that when she went to add a new payment method, a whole list of saved card numbers (redacted) showed up in the PAN

PCI DSS Requirement 12.8 dictates that any organization involved in payment card processing—including merchants, processors, acquirers, issuers, and service providers—must have policies and procedures in place to manage its service providers.

Say you are interested in developing an application that runs on consumers’ devices and this application of yours will be used to accept payment card data. Perhaps, in this hypothetical reality, that you have no idea where your app’s obligations

The journey towards payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS) compliance can seem daunting. While there are only a handful of top-level tasks to complete, there are dozens of sub-requirements and goals to meet for each, all of which may

Payment cards have been around a long time, and nefarious schemes to take advantage of them have been around almost as long. Since most people do not read the legal agreements they sign up to, they are unaware of their real responsibilities towards

Becoming compliant with payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS) protocols can be a time-consuming process — but it’s a non-negotiable security standard required of merchants and other organizations that handle payments card data.