The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was developed to encourage and enhance payment card account data security
and facilitate the broad adoption of consistent data security measures globally. PCI DSS provides a baseline of technical and operational
requirements designed to protect account data. While specifically designed to focus on environments with payment card account data, PCI
DSS can also be used to protect against threats and secure other elements in the payment ecosystem.
Table 1 shows the 12 principal PCI DSS requirements
