Visa Now Letting Level One Retailers Self-Assess For PCI Compliance
Written by Evan SchumanDecember 20th, 2007
Visa has been permitting some of the nation's largest retailers perform their own PCI assessments, rather than insisting that they have third-party assessors perform that role.
The choice of whether the self-assessment option is available to Level 1 merchants varies by card brand, but Visa is now selectively permitting it. Officially, the issuing bank and the card brand must agree before a Level 1 is given the self-assessment permission and it's often approved for re-certification, once a retailer has already been certified PCI compliant.
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