PCI  Security standarts council released documentation highlighting the changes to be introduced in October for PCI-DSS and PA-DSS standards. Version 2.0 of PCI-DSS and PA-DSS do not introduce any major requirements but rather updates and clarify some points in the standarts. Reinforcement of need for thorough scoping exercise prior to PCI DSS assessment in order to understand where cardholder data [...]

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PCI-DSS short version of  “Payment card Industry Data Security Standart”. It is mandated requirements for anyone processing credit cards regardless of the size or nature of the business.  So what is pci-dss and how to be compliant with pci-dss. Without going into much detail we will summarize it to its most important aspects. PCI-DSS compliance simply a framework to prevent [...]