CHAPTER 9: THE PCI SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE (SAQ)

The PCI DSS Self-Assessment Questionnaire is a validation tool developed by the PCI Council to assist merchants and service providers in self-evaluating their compliance with the PCI DSS.

All merchants and their service providers are required to comply with the PCI DSS in its entirety and, if they are eligible for self-assessment, to attest that they comply by using the standard Attestation of Compliance document. A new Self-Assessment Questionnaire and Attestation of Compliance will be released in early 2014 to meet the requirements of version 3.0 of the PCI DSS.

In the last version of the questionnaire, there were six validation categories (see Table 3), each of which can be downloaded ...

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