PCI A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition

Are corresponding policies and procedures updated regularly and at least every six months?

Can the cloud be a strategic differentiator for the business or is it a commodity service?

Does the system store, transmit or contain PCI, PII or HIPAA information?

Does your system have the ability to display stores and/or merchandise items by category?

How are activities traced back to individual client personnel or individual CSP personnel?

How does a payment gateway help your organization maintain PCI compliance?

How much focus does your organization put in to become and stay PCI DSS compliant?

Is access to cryptographic keys restricted to the few est number of custodians necessary?

Is appropriate training provided to staff with security breach response responsibilities?

Is the electronic terminal kept in a secured and restricted area, away from public access?


This PCI Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the PCI challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems.


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.



Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'



This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make PCI investments work better.



This PCI All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.



INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth PCI Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of PCI maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which PCI improvements can be made.



In using the questions you will be better able to:



Diagnose PCI projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices.



Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals.



Integrate recent advances in PCI and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines.



Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the PCI Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which PCI areas need attention.



Your purchase includes access to the PCI self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.