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it's been a while since I did the full pci compliance rigamarole, but I don't recall it being that difficult. you basically just answer a bunch of questions correctly about how you are transmitting and storing the data using sufficient encryption and then they run some automated pen tests on your site and then you are done.

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>run some automated pen tests on your site and then you are done

Haha you are obviously choosing to hide some pain away from your memories.

I agree that you run automated pen tests, but then securing up all networks servers with the results of those pentests can be incredibly time consuming and awkward.

I suppose on a very complex system, that could be a big deal. But I think the last site I did it on was running on AWS so all ports were closed unless I specifically opened them for a specific purpose and it was just a few tweaks I had to make to pass. I normally only have 80 and 443 open to the outside world.

It's expensive.

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