Coffee with the Council Podcast: Guidance for PCI DSS E-commerce Requirements Effective After 31 March 2025
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Coffee with the Council By PCI Security Standards Council
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to our podcast series, Coffee with the Council. I'm Alicia Malone, Director of Communications and Public Relations for the PCI Security Standards Council. As many of our listeners are aware, we are quickly approaching the deadline to adopt the future-dated requirements of PCI DSS version 4.0.1 on March 31, 2025. Over the course of the last year, the Council has received feedback that more guidance was needed to properly implement some of the e-commerce security requirements in the standard, particularly requirements 6.4.3, and 11.6.1. As such, the Council has released several pieces of guidance this year, including updates to Self-Assessment Questionnaire A, an FAQ related to SAQA eligibility criteria,
and of course, the highly anticipated guidance developed by our e-commerce guidance task force. Joining me today to walk through all of this new guidance is Lauren Holloway, Director of Data Security Standards at PCI SSC.
What are the new PCI DSS 4.0.1 future-dated requirements and when do they take effect?
Welcome, Lauren.
Well, thank you, Alicia. It's great to be with you today and to help clarify all this new information that the Council has released recently for our industry.
So let's start by talking a little bit more about these future dated requirements in PCI DSS version 4.0.1 and the deadline to adopt them. What are they and what do we need to know about this deadline?
Well, there are 64 new requirements that were released in PCI DSS. and 51 of them are future dated. So the future dated requirements are effective, as Alicia said, on the 31st of March, 2025. Requirements 643 and 1161 that she mentioned for e-commerce environments are part of these future dated requirements. We received feedback that these requirements are challenging for many of our stakeholders, especially for smaller merchants, to implement them. So we wanted to make sure we provided clarity and resources to assist them on their validation journey. Now, the deadline to adopt these new requirements is a date that we've been talking about for three years. PCI DSS version 4.0 was introduced in 2022.
and it became the only active version of the standard when PCI DSS version 3.2.1 was retired on the 31st of March, 2024.
Why were e-commerce requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 added to reduce e‑skimming risks?
The future data requirements have been in the standard since March of 2022 as best practices until the 31st of March, 2025. After this 2025 date, these requirements are required and they must be fully considered during a PCI DSS assessment.
So Lauren, why were these two e-commerce requirements added to PCI DSS version four?
Well, in recent years, data breaches during e-commerce transactions, commonly known as e-skimming attacks, have increased significantly. As e-commerce platforms have become more complex and businesses have grown more reliant on external scripts in their e-commerce environments, these attacks have become more common.
What did the E‑commerce Guidance Task Force set out to accomplish?
Scripts running in a consumer's browser are now a significant target for attackers seeking to steal payment card data. So requirements 643 and 1161 were added to PCI DSS version 4.0 originally and now version 4.0.1 to reduce the risk of e-skimming attacks during e-commerce transactions. These requirements focus on ensuring that payment page scripts are properly authorized, checked for integrity, and monitored for tampering, and to prevent unauthorized changes to web pages.
What does the Payment Page Security and Preventing E‑Skimming guidance cover and who should use it?
That's great. The council announced in November last year that it had formed an e-commerce guidance task force, which brought together expertise from across the payment security ecosystem, including expertise from PCI SSC staff, payment brand representatives, members of the Board of Advisors and Technical Advisory Board, the Global Executive Assessor Roundtable, or GEER, and the Small Merchant Business Task Force. What was the mission of this task force?
Yeah, Alicia, the objective of that task force was to develop guidance focusing on PCI DSS requirements 643 and 1161. Specifically, they were tasked to produce a guidance document that provides clear and actionable guidance about how entities can meet these two requirements, guidance for how third-party service providers can help their customers to meet these requirements, and practical implementation strategies rather than a theoretical framework.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:12–1:22
2
What are the new PCI DSS 4.0.1 future-dated requirements and when do they take effect?
1:22–2:46
3
Why were e-commerce requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 added to reduce e‑skimming risks?
2:46–3:34
4
What did the E‑commerce Guidance Task Force set out to accomplish?
3:34–4:07
5
What does the Payment Page Security and Preventing E‑Skimming guidance cover and who should use it?
4:07–6:08
6
How were SAQ A eligibility and validation requirements changed for e‑commerce merchants?
6:08–6:48
7
How can merchants confirm their sites aren’t susceptible to script‑based attacks and what does the new FAQ explain?
6:48–10:01
8
Where can organizations find the new PCI DSS guidance (including AI assessor guidance and FAQ #1588)?
10:01–11:43
Speakers
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