Industry consortium

PCI Security Standards Council

Founded by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and JCB. Maintains the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) — the contractual security baseline every merchant and processor handling card data must meet.

Short name: PCI Security Standards Council
Scope: Industry consortium
Homepage: pcisecuritystandards.org
Standards governed: 1

Standards governed by PCI Security Standards Council

PCI DSS v4.0 4.0.1 global Security If you store, process, or transmit card data — directly or through an iframe — PCI DSS applies. v4.0 is mandatory; v3.2.1 retired in March 2024.