The Definitive Guide to PCI DSS Version 4: Documentation, Compliance, and Management

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023

A. B. Cooper Jr. et al.The Definitive Guide to PCI DSS Version 4https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9288-4_7

7. Develop and Maintain Secure Systems and Software

Arthur B. Cooper Jr.¹  , Jeff Hall², David Mundhenk³ and Ben Rothke⁴

(1)

Colorado Springs, CO, USA

(2)

Minneapolis, MN, USA

(3)

Austin, TX, USA

(4)

Clifton, NJ, USA

 

Overview/Intro

Statistically speaking, a significant number of data breaches have been caused by flaws in applications and by the hackers who attempted to exploit them. In addition, hackers and threat actors repeatedly target payment applications including ecommerce sites. They do so because that’s where the money is. Payment card applications have ...