What is PCI DSS compliance? Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) compliance ensures companies adhere to a set of 12 requirements developed by the PCI Security Standards Council.

Key Points Deadline: March 31, 2025 Who Must Comply: All organizations that store, process, or transmit payment card data. PCI DSS v4.0.1 requirements are more robust across all client sizes.

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) will start enforcing requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 under the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) beginning March 31, 2025. These changes will impact ...

That’s where the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) comes in. Every year, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) issues a new set of compliance rules, along with ...

Compliance with PCI DSS 4.0 may take significant effort – concerted, focused, and prompt action is necessary, given that the April 1, 2025, deadline has passed.

Continue to meet the security needs of the payment industry Promote security as continuous process Add flexibility for different methodologies Enhance validation methods PCI DSS 4.0 boasts some of ...

It revealed that on average only 27.9% of global organizations maintained full compliance with the PCI DSS, a drop of over 27% since compliance peaked in 2016. The report highlighted other concerns: ...

The March 2023 introduction of PCI DSS 4.0 represents a significant step forward. It replaces the older PCI DSS, v3.2.1 standard (which will remain active until March 2024).

The PCI DSS is a set of security standards established to protect cardholder data and reduce the risk of payment card fraud. Version 1 of the standard was first released in 2005 by the Payment Card ...

However, while PCI DSS has remained the gold standard to protect cardholder information for more than 15 years, global compliance with PCI DSS has dwindled. In fact, only 30% of businesses were ...

The 2022 PSR found that overall PCI DSS compliance improved significantly in 2020, with 43.4% of organizations maintaining full compliance, a 15.5% improvement over the record low of 27.9% in 2019.

There are four PCI compliance levels: Level 1 applies to merchants that process more than 6 million card transactions a year, level 2 is for those processing 1 to 6 million annually, level 3 is ...