Articles tagged card data protection

12 Practices to Protect Card Data, and What PCI DSS v4.0.1 Asks for Each

The PCI Security Standards Council's twelve data security practices for small merchants, each set against the PCI DSS v4.0.1 requirements that make it specific: password length, patch deadlines, terminal inspections, scans and more.

PCI Compliance 101: What PCI DSS v4.0.1 Is and How You Meet It

The basics of PCI DSS v4.0.1 for a business that takes cards: who it applies to, what counts as in scope, which card data may be stored, how compliance is validated, what changed in v4.x, and what has to happen between assessments.

Storing CVV: What Merchants Need to Know

What PCI DSS v4.0.1 says about the card verification code: it may not be stored once authorisation completes, what is allowed before that, where it tends to hide, and what counts as a CVV and what does not.