The PCI DSS Future Dated Requirements Deadline is almost here .. Are you ready ?

Be ready or get fined !

2025 is just a few weeks away now, and we have some big regulatory deadlines coming up

One of the major ones are the future dated requirements of version 4.0 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Industry (PCI DSS) Standard

PCI DSS, if you are not aware, is a global technical security standard that applies to anyone who stores, processes, or transmits cardholder data

If you have worked in Cybersecurity for any amount of years, then you will have come into contact with this standard in one form or another

As of 31st March 2025 .. the future dated requirements of the new version become effective

These were considered “best practice” until now but now it is time to put these into effect or risk your PCI certification

PCI DSS 4.0 is an extensive change to the previous version of PCI DSS;

There have been a lot of shakeups about terminologies like “network security…