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PCI DSS 3.0: Are You In Compliance Yet?

The new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard 3.0 (PCI DSS 3.0) that went into effect on January 1 contains significant changes.  Some of the requirements will remain suggested best practices until July 1, 2015. After that, they too become mandatory. PCI 3.0 will have the greatest impact on e-commerce merchants who partner with third parties for payment card data collection, along with third party service providers who remotely manage merchant systems and networks.  Up to version 2.0 of the PCI DSS, fully outsourcing an e-commerce payment system via a redirect payment company put the web environment out of scope. The web environment didn’t touch payment card data, and therefore did not have to meet PCI requirements. But now, under

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