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title: "PCI-DSS Financial Compliance — Definition & Engineering Context"
description: "The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a set of security standards designed to ensure that all companies that accept, process, store or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment."
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# PCI-DSS Financial Compliance

> **Definition:** The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a set of security standards designed to ensure that all companies that accept, process, store or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment.

## In depth

PCI-DSS compliance involves network segmentation, system vulnerability scanning, and strict access controls. To minimize compliance scope, systems isolate credit card handling entirely, tokenizing transactions via secure payment enclaves like Stripe or AWS Nitro.

## How ERPStack applies this

We design systems that minimize PCI-DSS audit scope by routing payment checkouts through tokenized gateways, keeping primary databases out of audit scope.

## Related reading

- [ACID Compliance](https://erpstack.io/glossary/acid-compliance)
- [Zero-Trust Security](https://erpstack.io/glossary/zero-trust)