The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard provides technical and operational requirements for protecting payment account data. Its scope includes entities that store, process or transmit relevant data, and entities that can affect the security of the cardholder-data environment. See the PCI SSC overview.
Establish the assessment scope
Identify the payment channels, data flows, systems, service providers and responsibilities involved. Determine the applicable validation approach with the relevant payment and assessment stakeholders.
Outsourcing payment processing can change the applicable control scope, but it does not automatically remove all merchant responsibilities. Review the PCI SSC guidance on outsourced processing.
Use in CSFaaS
The reviewed catalogue labels its entry PCI DSS 4.01 - EN; the publisher's edition notation is v4.0.1. Verify the source against the PCI SSC document library and record the edition actually assessed.
Use the framework to organise owners, policies, gaps and supporting evidence. Preserve scope and validation decisions with the assessment. Internal maturity, approval or link-completion status does not replace the required PCI DSS validation documentation.