First Time PCI DSS Compliance Assessments

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.

PCI Prioritized Approach Tool

This tool provides six security milestones that helps you incrementally protect against the highest risk factors and escalating threats while on the road to PCI DSS compliance. It offers you:

• A roadmap to use to address its risks in priority order
• A pragmatic approach that allows for “quick wins”
• Support for financial and operational planning
• Promotion of objective and measurable progress indicators
• Helps promoting consistency among Qualified Security Assessors

Click here to get the Prioritized Approach tool from the PCI SSC Documents Library.

PCI SSC Small Merchants Web site

The Small Merchants Web site is there to educate you on the relevance and importance of PCI compliance, is meant to serve 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?

Click here to reach the PCI SSC Small Merchant Web site.