PCI Compliant Hosting: PCI DSS and Online Payment Process

Melisa Assunta
2 min readApr 24, 2020

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Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard specifies the minimum requirements of security for software vendors, merchants, or any organizations that process or transmits credit card data. Either you are directly dealing with payments or using a third-party payment processor, compliance is mandatory otherwise you will be banned or pay monthly fines. In order to accept the credit card payments, you need to use PCI compliant hosting and other PCI requirements that are discussed in this article.

You will also understand the complete process of making online payments using credit cards, merchant PCI DSS levels, quality assurance techniques and many more.

What is PCI DSS?

PCI DSS is short of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard that is a set of security standards formed by Visa, MasterCard, JCB International, Discover Financial Services, and American Express in 2004. These standards are governed by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), the compliance scheme having aims to prevent data breaches and making secure transactions of credit and debit cards.

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Melisa Assunta
Melisa Assunta

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