PCI stands for Payment Card Industry. This is a standard made from American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International on September 7th 2006. This standard contains list of requirements regarding exchange of credit/debit card data. The main purpose is to protect cardholders against misuse of their personal information. In which case should you be PCI compliant? If you want to start accepting payments directly on your website without using a third party payment gateway you should buy PCI scanning software. You can have serious problems if you decide to proceed without that. If your website is…