The term PCI stands for Payments and Cards Industry. A server should comply to PCI security standards if the website hosted involves any payment processing. In other words, if your website involves any payment transaction, it has to be hosted in a PCI compliant server. Following are its mandated functions,
Builds and maintains a secure network through firewalls, to protect the cardholder data.
Employs strong data protection services to protect the data from breaching. It also ensures the cardholder information is encrypted during the transmission process.
Regularly updates the anti-virus software and places strong access control measures to avoid unauthorized access of data.
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