PCI Software Security Framework is a new approach to securely design, develop and maintain current and future releases of payment software products. Financial institutions address overall software security resiliency based on this new security framework, which expands the scope for payment software types, technologies, and development methodologies.
These PCI SSF consultancy, we incorporate security in the SDLC of companies, ensuring that the software adequately protects the integrity and confidentiality of payment transaction data.
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Services, Testing
THESE is a Uruguayan based Software Quality Assurance company with over 10 years of experience in the field.
Our mission is to provide our customers innovative solutions through our quality control services, carried out by our qualified team of experts, focusing on the early detection of incidents that would allow us to anticipate further issues and optimize processes, generating significant savings to our customers and a better user experience.
These PCI Software Security Framework (PCI SSF) Consulting service is provided according to the requirements and control objectives of this new Modern Approach to payment software security.
We rely on the 2 standards of the PCI SSF framework:
- Secure SLC Standard
- Secure Software Standard
The consultancy helps financial institutions in the evaluation of the level of Maturity, we use the OWASP SAMM model for it; We work based on the Roadmap that we obtain as a result of this preliminary evaluation.
We focus on the following business functions:
- Software Security Framework.
- Secure Software Engineering.
- Secure Software and Data Management.
- Security Communications.
We validate for each of the above functions:
- Control Objectives: We provide guidelines on the security results that must be met to be validated against the standard.
- Test Requirements: We advise on the validation activities carried out by the assessor to confirm whether a specific control objective has been met.
- Orientation: We provide additional information to better understand each control objective and how that objective might be met.
Some of the benefits that PCI SSF grants us
- Secure software for the financial industry with proper attention to your business.
- Promotes developer education on the importance of integrating security into the payment software development lifecycle.
- It applies to both agile and traditional development processes.
- Either the SDLC processes or a particular piece of Software or both can be validated.
- Extends the applicability provided by PA-DSS (obsolete as of October 2022).
- Provides reputation and competitive advantage.
- For customers: As a critical component of your business, your software will be more effective at protecting sensitive data and resistant to unexpected operating conditions.
- For your company: Obtain independent validation of your development processes, building trust and allowing you to focus on growing your business.
- Payment software validated and listed on the PCI SSC website.
Use Cases
Consulting in this new PCI framework applies to all those companies in the financial sector that develop, sell and market software for means of payment and that want to improve their processes by adopting the best practices in the industry.
Those organizations that need to formulate and implement a software security strategy will benefit from this consultancy.
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