Tag: Visa

Do you process card data and don't want to get complicated with PCI DSS compliance reports? So you can get an exemption

The security of payment card data is not the same as it was 10 or 15 years ago. The massification of EMV chips and contactless transactions, the use of tokenization, the implementation of P2PE controls and...

/ December 18, 2025

Visa's AIS program no longer includes level 4 for merchants

Visa's Account Information Security (AIS) program has undergone major changes, modifying merchant classification criteria to report compliance with the PCI DSS standard. This program defines the applicable requirements based on the...

/ November 27, 2025

What is PCI DSS?

This new series of articles from PCI Hispano will present an overview of each of the standards currently published by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Board.

/ August 18, 2024

Validity of PCI DSS v3.2.1 compliance reports and assessments

The PCI SSC set 31 March 2024 as the deadline for the withdrawal of PCI DSS version 3.2.1. As of April 1, 2024 the only active and official version of PCI DSS...

/ November 15, 2023

Visa reports that its PIN security programme ended on 1 October 2023

In a decision that has taken the entire payment media ecosystem by surprise, Visa announced that its Visa PIN Security Program ended on October 1, 2023. In a brief statement...

/ October 30, 2023

Brief history of payment cards

The use of debit and credit cards are part of our daily financial life. According to the Bank of Spain, there are currently approximately 85 million payment cards (plastics) in circulation in Spain, more than 60,000 ATMs...

/ January 19, 2023