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PCI DSS

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

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In e-commerce, PCI DSS means: Short for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard: the security rules that any business that stores, processes or sends card data must follow.

In Turkish: PCI DSS, kart verisi güvenlik standardı

How it is used

Used by developers, security and finance teams. Businesses must be PCI DSS compliant, and payment providers ask for proof of compliance. Many online stores let the payment provider handle card data, so card numbers never touch their own servers.

Example sentences

  1. We use hosted payment pages so that our PCI DSS scope stays small.

  2. The bank asked us to fill in the PCI DSS questionnaire again this year.

Common collocations

  • PCI DSS compliant
  • PCI DSS compliance
  • PCI scope
  • self-assessment questionnaire
  • payment gatewayA service that securely sends a customer's card or other payment details from the online store to the banks and returns whether the payment is approved.
  • 3D SecureAn extra security step for online card payments in which the card's bank asks the customer to confirm the purchase, for example with an SMS code or a banking app.
  • fraud detectionChecking orders and payments for signs of fraud, such as stolen cards or fake accounts, often with software that gives each order a risk score.

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