PCI DSS v4.0 introduced the concept of targeted risk analysis (TRA) and includes two different types of TRAs. A description of each, answers to frequently asked questions, and a table that lists the PCI DSS requirements that specify completion of TRAs to define how frequently to perform an activity are provided in this document.
This document was developed to help merchants and service providers understand the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Self-Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs). To understand the SAQs, which strategies your organization can use to facilitate the completion of a PCI DSS SAQ, and which SAQ your organization is eligible to complete, we recommend that you review this Instructions and Guidelines document in its entirety.
In this best practices guide, we’ll cover some of the practical steps organizations can take to accelerate the shift towards PCI DSS v4.0—critical security control themes to consider and solutions in the existing security stack that can help with the transition.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) engaged Coalfire Systems Inc. (Coalfire), as a respected Payment Card Industry (PCI) Qualified Security Assessor (QSA), to conduct an independent technical assessment of their HPE SecureData Payments solution. Coalfire did not conduct technical testing for this assessment. The assessment was to identify the potential impact to the number of PCI DSS 3.2 controls applicable to merchants using encryption solutions based on HPE SecureData Payments.
The PCI SSC covers 15 different PCI security standards and specifies where they apply to the payment process. For the topic of PCI DSS 4.0 pillar 2 and 4 stand out specifically as a driving factor for this new standard and its requirements. All organizations that are covered by PCI DSS 4.0 must comply with the new standards by March 31, 2024. A new addition to the standard as compared to the 3.x one is the inclusion of APIs. (The changes between v3.2.1 and 4.0 are outlined in this white paper.
Organizations today operate in a challenging business environment. Their workforce is constantly changing and the business processes the workforce performs are distributed across an increasing number of applications. The average worker today uses over nine applications. Ensuring these workers don’t do anything that could have a negative financial impact on the organization is no easy task.
WhiteHat Sentinel™ is a software-as-a-service platform that enables your business to quickly deploy a scalable application security program across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). By combining our scalable application scanning platform with the world’s largest threat research team, we identify where you are vulnerable with near zero false positives.
Understanding the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard version 4.0.
Protecting cardholder data in today’s dynamic data environments has never been more difficult. The first step to PCI compliance is scoping—identifying where you store and process cardholder data and then segmenting that environment from the rest of your systems.
Recent changes in the PCI DSS regulation (v3.0, v3.1, and v3.2) provide a set of suggested best practices and methodologies that make it possible to comply with PCI on an ongoing basis.
A comprehensive checklist
With the influx of big box stores and national retail chains, many small to medium-sized merchants are finding it increasingly difficult to compete. Few of these locally owned, often family-run businesses have the budget or technical resources to build their own inventory management, supply chain, point-of-sale, or other sophisticated systems like the big players have. That’s why more than 5,000 leading mid-market retailers turn to Epicor.