Recommendations to Help You Build, Manage, and Report Your PCI DSS Compliance
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The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has created more than 250 technical and operational requirements to protect credit card data known as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).
PCI DSS standards form a comprehensive cybersecurity framework and outline best practices your organization should implement to protect sensitive cardholder data from being stolen and misused by attackers.
If your organization accepts, stores, processes, or transmits credit card information, you are subject to compliance.
Whether you’re new to PCI compliance or you’re wanting to streamline and mature your existing framework and procedures, you’ll find this page a great resource for all of your PCI DSS needs.
PCI has almost 100 security elements, or 100 separate projects, that should be documented, staffed, managed, and solved all together. Apptega is a cybersecurity framework helps you organize your entire program—who’s accountable, what your policies are, when you need to complete tasks, how much you’re spending, and if you’re on track, including real-time scoring down to the sub-control level.
Companies across all industries use Apptega to implement and report PCI DSS compliance. With ever-changing regulations and evolving business conditions, Apptega will help be prepared for your next audit and customer inquiries.
Meeting or exceeding PCI DSS shows your customers, partners, and insurers that you have a robust program to protect cardholder data.
Your organization can emphasize how well you meet these compliance standards by completing an assessment from an independent qualified security assessor (QSA) who can certify that your organization’s existing security procedures meet framework requirements. An approved scanning vendor (ASV) can validate if your vulnerability scan practices meet PCI scan requirements.
You can easily build, manage, and report your PCI DSS compliance procedures and overall cybersecurity program within a cybersecurity management software solution like Apptega. Say goodbye to complex GRCs, spreadsheets, and word processing documents and say hello to a single program that will enable you to map all your cybersecurity frameworks in one place.
Here’s a quick overview of how it works:
When cyber criminals began targeting credit card data in the late 1990s, industry professionals quickly understood they needed to work together to create standards to help protect this sensitive data from would-be attackers. From there, the idea of a credit card security framework was borne.
The first version of the PCI DSS framework unveiled in 2001 was representative of cybersecurity frameworks used by a variety of companies in the credit card industry. The most recent version, represents a unification of the industry’s technical and operational requirements to protect cardholder data.
There are 12 core requirements and 251 sub-controls that comprise PCI DSS, including:
Managing PCI DSS compliance is challenging. With more than 12 requirements and 251 sub-controls, many organizations just aren’t sure where to begin. Others have built their programs from scratch and struggle with updates, improvements, gap analyses, and responding to audits because they lack consistency and reliability with how they document their compliance procedures.
If your organization still uses a complex GRC, spreadsheets, or static word processing documents to manage your PCI compliance framework, you may feel frustrated and inefficient. But you don’t have to.
"A cybersecurity management platform can help your organization—large or small—more accurately and efficiently report on PCI DSS compliance, whether you’re just getting started or you’ve been managing PCI since its release." - Billy Norwood,
In this video demo, you’ll learn more about how a cybersecurity framework solution can help you:
Leap Credit LLC provides a variety of credit services for customers, including tools that enable clients to quickly apply for and get approval on short-term loans. The company’s loan management platform can write loans within six seconds and can fund those loans within five minutes. In less than a year, the company grew from operating in one state to eight.
With that quick growth, the company was suddenly required to comply with a broad range of regulatory standards, including Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards, and prove it had proper controls in place to meet all of those standards.
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With Apptega, organizations of all sizes are saving time and money and eliminating PCI DSS compliance frustrations. Apptega is a comprehensive platform that enables you to build, manage, and report your cybersecurity program’s success, including a variety of compliance frameworks.
Here are some of its core benefits:
Many organizations in a variety of industries rely on the National Institute of Technology’s (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework to develop their cybersecurity programs and then mature them over time. The NIST framework provides a solid foundation for cybersecurity, and coupled with PCI DSS, they share common goals—to protect sensitive data and improve data security.
If you already have the NIST Cybersecurity Framework in place, you may be curious to know if you can map PCI DSS to it? The answer is, yes! Aligning the two can help you align your organization’s overall cybersecurity and compliance objectives and create a better understanding the effectiveness of your security procedures.
Apptega's Intelligent Framework Mapping, known as Harmony, allows you to automatically crosswalk and consolidate all shared controls, sub controls, resources and activities across multiple frameworks within your program. With this powerful capability, you can significantly improve efficiency and reduce overhead.
The PCI Security Standards Council created an in-depth guide that outlines how to map PCI DSS v3.2.1 to NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework v1.1.
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PCI has almost 100 security elements, or 100 separate projects, that should be documented, staffed, managed, and solved all together. Apptega is a cybersecurity framework helps you organize your entire program—who’s accountable, what your policies are, when you need to complete tasks, how much you’re spending, and if you’re on track, including real-time scoring down to the sub-control level.
Companies across all industries use Apptega to implement and report PCI DSS compliance. With ever-changing regulations and evolving business conditions, Apptega will help be prepared for your next audit and customer inquiries.
