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Everything you need to know about PCI SSF Secure Software Lifecycle (SSLC)

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Everything you need to know about PCI SSF Secure Software Lifecycle (SSLC)

The PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard is one of the two programs which is also a part of the PCI Software Security Framework (“SSF”) introduced by the PCI Council. The standard provides security requirements and assessment procedures for software vendors to meet for integrating their software development lifecycles.

This ensures and further validates that the secure lifecycle management practices are well established by the vendors. It is a Standard that plays a key role in promoting secure software development processes and methodologies when developing the payment application. The Secure SLC is the first of the kind PCI standard that focuses on the vendor’s software development process and not the payment application itself. The aim of developing this standard was to ensure the implementation of payment application security principles at an early stage of the application development process.

The standard offers security guidelines for implementation with the current industry best Software Development Lifecycle practices covering more about the standard, we have in today’s article shared in detail about the Secure Software Lifecycle Standard, its Assessment and Compliance process. 

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