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Support your PCI compliance program

Learn how Snyk’s unique capabilities can help support your organization’s PCI compliance efforts.

Foundations of PCI-DSS compliance

How you store, process, or transmit payment card data can be extremely varied and will be unique to your organization. However, you still need to provide efficient and evidential vulnerability management in order to meet PCI-DSS compliance.

PCI-DSS​​

The PCI Security Standards Council is a global forum for the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, dissemination, and implementation of security standards for account data protection.

Recommendations

PCI DSS is a set of network security and business best practice guidelines used by the PCI Security Standards Council to establish a “minimum security standard” to protect customers’ payment card information.

Real-world application

PCI-DSS standards apply to all entities that store, process, and/or transmit cardholder data. All merchants who accept or process payment cards and store cardholder data must comply with PCI-DSS.

Snyk helps you satisfy PCI rules

Snyk supports key risk management and monitoring goals that map to many PCI-DSS controls (including but not limited to the examples below).

Protect stored cardholder data

Snyk helps you quickly identify and fix vulnerabilities, securing both your apps and your stored data, as described by PCI control objective 3.

Develop and maintain secure systems

Snyk automatically notifies you of new risks in any project, enabling you to maintain system-wide security to support PCI control objective 6.

Track and monitor network and data access

Snyk includes built-in functions that help you enforce role-based access control in your projects, supporting PCI control objective 10.

Security is key for compliance

Snyk helps organizations manage security at scale with a developer-friendly platform.

Developer-first security tools

Snyk integrates seamlessly into developer tools and workflows, providing actionable fix advice.

Automated remediation

Snyk enables one-click fix PRs for fast vulnerability remediation, so teams can merge and move on.

Leading security intelligence

The Snyk Vulnerability Database provides up-to-date, actionable security content across multiple ecosystems.