For merchants that are performing a PCI DSS assessment for the first time, the PCI Council has a number of tools and resources to provide guidance and assistance.
The PCI Prioritized Approach Tool provides six security milestones that will help you incrementally protect against the highest risk factors and escalating threats while on the road to PCI DSS compliance. It offers you:
You may find the PCI Prioritized Approach Tool in the PCI SSC Document Library
The Small Merchants website is there to educate you on the relevance and importance of PCI compliance, serves as a first step toward familiarization and compliance with the PCI DSS, and answers the following critical questions:
Why Secure?
What to Secure?
How to Secure?
Access the PCI SSC Small Merchant WebsiteWhether this is your first or fifth time complying with PCI DSS standards, to help an organization work toward compliance, you have access to a number of tools and resources on the PCI SSC website
The PCI SSC also offers a variety of information supplements and guidance documents in its Document Library.
You can download these tools in the PCI SSC Document Library
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