Valid card data is highly sought-after on the cybercrime underground. In fact, it’s helping to drive a global epidemic in payment fraud predicted to reach $40bn by 2026. In a bid to stem losses, the card industry created the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) over two decades ago. No organization that processes, transmits or stores card data can afford to ignore it. Yet compliance can be onerous.

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from comforte Blog authored by Mirza Salihagic. Read the original post at: https://insights.comforte.com/a-beginners-guide-to-pci-dss-4.0-requirements-1-4