How to cope with PA-DSS certification?

One more article that will be helpful to you if you are working in the sphere of electronic payments. Have your business faced the problem of PA-DSS certification? All businesses which work on the payment application development need to undergo the process of PA-DSS certification. Let’s have a closer look at it.

In the most general way PA-DSS can be determined as a data security standard which is needed to be followed by payment application developers. There are certain differences between PCI certification and PA-DSS certification which should be pointed out. So, any business that processes payments needs to undergo PCI certification and meet PCI compliance requirements while PA-DSS certification is mainly targeted at payment software developers and vendors.  The information on the PA-DSS certification phases and documents required for PA-DSS certification will help you to cope with it successfully. The following phases of PA-DSS certification can be pointed out:

• gap analysis;

• product installation in the PA-DSS compliant lab;

• documentation analysis;

• product testing;

• remediation;

• final certification.

The more detailed explanation of the phases of PA-DSS certification and the additional information on the documents which are required can be received from the article at #Paylosophy