Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) – Background, Overview and Compliance Requirements

• By: Staff Editor
• Date: August 07, 2010

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) was developed to encourage and enhance cardholder security and facilitate broad adoption of consistent data security measures globally.

The PCI DSS provides a baseline of technical and operational requirements designed to protect cardholder data.

This article gives an overview of the standard including its background, reasons for implementation, applicability and requirements.