PCI Security Standards Council — PCI DSS Standards (2026)

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PCI Security Standards Council's standards page for PCI DSS 4.0.1, the current global benchmark for securing cardholder data. Applies to any entity that stores, processes, or transmits payment card data. Key scope-reduction controls include tokenization, point-to-point encryption (P2PE), hosted payment pages, and network segmentation to isolate the cardholder data environment (CDE).