Payment Card Industry Security Standard Council (PCI SSC) is a global, open body created to develop, enhance, distribute, and assist with the understanding of security standards for payment security. The Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA DSS) covers security for payment applications that access cardholder data. PCI PTS standard is modular, covering hardware and firmware security requirements to protect against physical, logical, and network tamper attacks. The P2PE standard is a set of security requirements that cover the payment terminal, terminal application, deployment, key management, and decryption environment.”]

