CHAPTER 7: PCI DSS – THE STANDARD

The PCI DSS has 12 requirements, organised into six sections. Please note that this pocket guide is no substitute for obtaining your own copy of the Standard, which is freely downloadable from www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/documents.php.

PCI DSS version 1.0 was originally published in January 2005, with subsequent updates to version 1.1 in September 2006 and version 1.2 in October 2008. PCI DSS v2.0 was released on 28 October 2010, and most recently v3.0 was published on 7 November 2013.

With the release of PCI DSS v2.0, the PCI Security Standards Council introduced a new three-year lifecycle for standards development. This ensures a gradual and phased introduction of new versions, and helps ...

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