A vendor puts cardholder information into a chip by sliding a payment card through a machine that programs it and verifies the dat
a. The chip can make contactless transactions. Which of the following best describes the vendor's activity?
You are driving to a vendor for their first assessment. The facility is in a rural area, twenty miles away from the nearest large town. What most concerns you about the location?
A vendor wants to know if they will be penalized if their vault is not compliant. Who should they ask?
A vendor receives cardholder information and keys from a bank. The vendor then performs the following:
* Uses its HSM to create keys
* Creates cardholder information specific to each cardholder, including name and PAN
* Formats the data for the hardware that will put it on a card
* Writes it to an encrypted file
Which of the following best describes this process?
An assessor must provide which of the following to their client at the start of every assessment?
