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PCI’s Impact On The SME

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Following years of spectacular thefts of credit card numbers, the credit card companies banded together to create a security standard for businesses that accept credit card payments. Known as the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard), its 12 security standards are required of every merchant that processes credit cards.

The PCI DSS, or PCI standard for short, dictates the adoption of specific security policies, increased supervision and documentation of critical tasks, secure programming, and the mandatory adoption of security technologies. These technologies include centralized logging and file integrity checking of all PCI resources. Web ecommerce application code must be coded using secure programming practices to avoid specified vulnerabilities.

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