What are the Visa PABP and PCI PA-DSS standards?
Visa developed the Payment Applications Best Practices, “PABP”, guidelines to assist software vendors in creating secure payment applications that help Merchants and agents mitigate compromises, prevent storage of sensitive cardholder data (i.e. full magnetic stripe data, CVV, CVV2 or PIN data) and support overall compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Effective October of 2008, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council has taken this over from Visa and re-named the standard the Payment Application Data Security Standard, or PCI PA-DSS.
