The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) aims to enhance security for consumers by setting guidelines for any company that accepts, stores, processes, or transmits credit card information — regardless of the number of transactions or the size of those transactions
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is an information security standard for organizations that handle branded credit cards from the major card schemes. PCI DSS gap assessment is performed in the early phases of PCI compliance adoption. This enables an organization to quickly identify gaps regarding PCI DSS requirements based on which a remediation plan can be crafted in which the required effort and actions are estimated to reach a compliant state. For gap assessment, SPS performs a thorough on-site and off-site review of systems, policies, processes and procedures with staff members and documentation review.
Following are some key outcomes of PCI Gap Assessment: