What are PA-DSS and PABP?
PA-DSS = Payment Application Data Security Standard maintained by the PCI Security Standards Council PASM = Visa’s Payment Application Security MandatesPABP = Payment Application Best Practices; the old name for PA-DSSTo address the critical issue of payment application security, in 2005 Visa created the Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) requirements to ensure vendors provide products which support merchants’ efforts to maintain PCI DSS compliance and eliminate the storage of sensitive cardholder data. Read more at www.visa.com/pabp.In April 2008, Visa’s PABP requirements were replaced by a new industry-wide standard, the Payment Card Industry Payment Application Data Security Standard ( PA-DSS), version 1.1.The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) will maintain the PA-DSS and administer a program to validate payment applications’ compliance against this standard. In the future, the PCI SSC will begin to publish and maintain a list of PA-DSS validated appl
