The Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA DSS)

PA DSS fills a gap in the more well known PCI DSS standard. Today, we’ll discuss this lesser-known standard. Remember that the biggies of the credit card industry put their heads together and came up with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Their aim was to protect the “Cardholder’s” data. PCI DSS was first released in 2005 and then revised in October 2006. PCI DSS has a few requirements that talk about securing web applications that deal with cardholder’s data.