PCI DSS Compliance

6 Interactive Sessions

Short, interactive sessions — watch it work, steer it, then build it yourself. Go deeper anytime with the full code walkthrough.

1. 1

   What PCI DSS actually is — and who makes the rules

   PCI DSS is a standard the card brands wrote to protect cardholder data — enforced through your bank by contract, not by any government — and it applies the moment you store, process, or transmit card data.

2. 2

   The cardholder data environment & scope reduction — the one lever that decides the whole job

   PCI applies to the cardholder data environment (CDE) — the systems that store, process, or transmit card data (and those connected to them) — so shrinking the CDE shrinks the work.

3. 3

   The 12 requirements — the whole shape on one page

   PCI DSS's 12 requirements aren't 12 unrelated hurdles — they group into 6 goals, and most of them ARE the shared security controls you already know (access, encryption, logging, vuln management, policy), just made prescriptive for card data.

4. 4

   Validation & evidence — how you prove PCI compliance

   PCI compliance isn't a claim you make — it's something you validate with the right method (SAQ or ROC) and back with real, dated evidence that shows your controls actually operate.

5. 5

   The gap assessment — know where you stand before you validate

   A gap assessment is a self-audit against the 12 PCI DSS requirements before you validate — you rate each one (in place / partial / missing), but first you shrink what's in scope, because the cheapest gap to close is the requirement you no longer have.

6. 6

   Staying compliant

   PCI is a continuous program, not an annual scramble: the shared security core plus PCI's overlays have to keep operating all year, with scope, scans, and validation on a recurring cadence.

What you walk away with