PCI SSF

PCI Compliance

The Payment Card Industry Secure Software Framework (PCI SSF) is a dedicated standard designed to enhance the security of payment software. Payment software plays a pivotal role in processing sensitive financial transactions, making its security paramount. PCI SSF sets out stringent guidelines and requirements to ensure that payment software is robustly secure.

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What’s the Significance of PCI SSF?

Payment software vulnerabilities can be exploited by cybercriminals to compromise payment card data and conduct fraudulent transactions. PCI SSF aims to mitigate these risks by providing a structured framework for securing payment software. PCI SSF is crucial for any organisation involved in payment processing.
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Key Advantages of PCI SSF

It caters to modern payment tools, offering a comprehensive approach to software security. RA recognises the pivotal role of payment software security in ensuring reliable payment transactions and offers PCI SSF assessment to fortify your payment infrastructure.
Enhanced Security
PCI SSF results in more secure payment software, reducing the risk of breaches and data compromise.
Industry Recognition
Compliance demonstrates your commitment to following industry best practices and standards, enhancing your reputation.
Reduced Risk
By addressing vulnerabilities and implementing security measures, you reduce the risk of security incidents.
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Navigating PCI SSF

As the successor to PA DSS, PCI SSF provides a more comprehensive security standard for maintaining payment software, eliminating vulnerabilities, protecting payment data, and defending against cyberattacks. Waiting until PA DSS expires in 2022 is not the wisest choice. Achieving PCI SSF Compliance involves several key phases:
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Our Methodology​

Our PCI SSF certification methodology (the “ra methodology”) includes assigning the Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) and Customer Success & Quality Manager to each customer through their entire compliance process.​
1

Project Kickoff

In this phase, QSA will deliver an overview presentation to entity’s Card Data Environment (CDE) stakeholders to verify the management goals and objectives of the compliance program​, identify a person or group of people responsible for driving the project​ and agree upon project-level milestones and requirements​.
2

Determine the scope​

RA will take the initiative by performing scoping exercise in a form of workshops to ensure that security controls cover all in-scope facilities, locations, retail outlets, data centers, back-office locations, etc., it is crucial to determine the complete scope of the cardholder data environment accurately.
3

Perform Gap Assessment​

We perform an in-depth analysis of the overall cardholder environment and determine if there are any gaps within the 12 security requirements.
4

Remediation​

The RA team will review on-site and off-site activities that include but not limited to document reviews, interviews, walkthroughs of business processes, and technological systems.
5

PCI SSF Assessment​

In this phase, we will identify the scope of the card holder environment, verify all the appropriate controls are correctly applied, and the identified gaps have been closed as well as entity policies and procedures will be reviewed to determine if it is sufficient for the PCI compliance​.
6

Report Submit to Council

After validation and verification of compliance, a report is submitted to the council in order to achieve PCI SSF certification, which serves as a mark of adherence to robust security standards.

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