PCI-DSS Compliance: Ensuring Payment Data Security

The PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a global set of security standards designed to ensure the protection of payment card data within an organization. It provides a framework for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving payment information security.Compliance with PCI-DSS requires demonstrating that your organization adheres to the standard's requirements. This may involve audits by a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) or self-assessment to verify that security controls are effectively in place to protect cardholder data.