After documenting improvements in Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance over the past six years, Verizon’s 2018 Payment Security Report reveals a downward trend in companies failing compliance assessments and perhaps not maintaining full compliance.
The PCI DSS helps businesses offering card payment facilities to protect their payment systems from breaches and theft of cardholder data, and compliance has been shown to help protect payment systems both from data breaches and theft of cardholder data.