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Understanding Payment Cryptography

Understanding Payment Cryptography - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Understanding Payment Cryptography

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- [Narrator] If your organization natively processes payment card transactions, you are likely familiar with the payment card industry data security standard, or PCI DSS. Designed to protect card holder data, building and operating an encrypted PCI DSS-compliant environment requires a significant amount of effort. Payment cryptography is an AWS service that reduces the operational burden of having a PCI DSS-compliant environment. Four primary data elements related to cardholder data are in scope for PCI DSS compliance. One of these elements is the primary account number. If you have a credit card in your wallet, take it out and look at it. If you're holding a Visa or MasterCard, you probably see 16 digits in groups of four. If you're holding an American Express card, you probably see 15 digits. That's the primary account number. Another data element is the card holder name. This is the name of the person to whom the card is issued, and is printed on the card. A third element is the…

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