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While compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard has improved significantly in 2020, it is still well off its 2016 highs, according to the 10th 2022 Verizon Payment Security Report.

In response to ever escalating cyberthreats in the payments industry, the PCI Security Standards Council instituted its most ambitious rewrite of the PCI DSS since 2004, the report said.

Aside from detailing changes in PCI DSS compliance, the report also lays out a roadmap for organizations implementing version 4.0 of the PCI DSS standards.

"Since the release of PCI DSS v1.0 in 2004, most organizations continue to struggle with achieving and maintaining effective, sustainable payment card data security," the report said.

The 2022 PSR found that overall PCI DSS compliance improved significantly in 2020, with 43.4% of organizations maintaining full compliance, a 15.5% improvement over the record low of 27.9% in 2019.

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