PCI DSS Compliance

Handle payment card data safely under PCI DSS. Scope your cardholder data environment, pick the right SAQ, implement required controls like encryption, segmentation, and logging, minimize scope with tokenization, and prepare evidence for your acquirer or QSA.

This skill guides teams through PCI DSS for storing, processing, or transmitting cardholder data. It helps you define and shrink your CDE scope, select the correct Self-Assessment Questionnaire, implement mandated controls (encryption, access control, network segmentation, logging), lean on tokenization and hosted fields to reduce scope, and assemble evidence for assessment.

When to use

Use when building payment flows or e-commerce that touch card data — scoping the CDE, choosing an SAQ, implementing controls, and reducing scope with tokenization.

Examples

Scope the CDE

Define what's in scope

Help me scope my PCI DSS cardholder data environment and identify which systems are in scope

Reduce scope

Tokenization and hosted fields

Redesign my checkout to use tokenization and hosted payment fields so I qualify for a simpler SAQ

Pick the right SAQ

Match your architecture

Given that we never store card numbers and use Stripe hosted fields, which PCI DSS SAQ applies and what controls do we still need?