The share of companies passing their interim security tests under the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) dropped to 37% in 2018. Verizon’s “2019 Payment Security Report” published Nov. 12. The ability to pass the assessment is a measure of the stability of a company’s compliance processes and security controls. In 2018, the average gap between full compliance and the interim assessment for companies that failed to pass was about 10%, six percentage points less than four years ago.”]