PAN Truncation and PCI DSS Compliance

Plenty has been written about the VISA tokenization best practices – but many have overlooked the truncation best practices. Ed and I covered truncation for SearchFinancialSecurity:

In July, Visa Inc. got out ahead of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council and issued its own best practices for tokenization and PAN truncation. While quite a lot of attention has been paid to the tokenization side of the recently issued guidance, the truncation side has received less attention. We thought it would be useful to address the other side of this vital PCI Data Security Standard compliance issue.

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