The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of comprehensive requirements for enhancing payment account data security, developed by the founding payment brands of the PCI Security Standards Council. The PCI DSS is a group of principles and requirements where the specific elements of the DSS are organized:
More information regarding these regulations can be found HERE.
The PCI DCC regulations are complicated and difficult to understand and if you are a small company looking to become PCI compliant then you can manage the compliance aspects yourself if you have the necessary in house knowledge to comply with the regulations.
The first step in the process would be to check your servers using PCI Scanning Services then once you have resolved all of the issues which are found you will have to fill out the SAQ and confirm that you have complied to the regulations.
The SAQ is a very long list of about 350 protocols which you are required to understand and conform too. This daunting task is simplified by the SAQ Wizard which we offer that makes the task manageable and explains the aspects and requirements in a way where you can work through the issues all the way through to compliance whereby you will be issued the necessary documents to provide to your merchant bank.