PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard
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The PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard is a PCI Security Standards Council framework that defines security requirements and best practices for developing and maintaining payment software securely throughout its entire lifecycle.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard canonical | 3 |
| PCI Secure Software Standard | 1 |
| Secure Software Lifecycle Program | 1 |
| Secure Software Lifecycle Standard | 1 |
| Secure Software Standard | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8283806 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard Context triple: [Payment Application Data Security Standard, supersededBy, PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard]
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A.
PCI 3-D Secure Core Security Standard
The PCI 3-D Secure Core Security Standard is a payment security specification that defines technical and security requirements for implementing 3-D Secure authentication in card-not-present transactions.
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B.
PCI DSS
PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a global set of security requirements designed to protect cardholder data and reduce credit card fraud for organizations that handle payment card information.
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C.
PCI Security Standards Council
The PCI Security Standards Council is a global forum that develops and manages security standards for payment card data protection, including the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
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D.
PCI PIN Transaction Security
PCI PIN Transaction Security is a global security standard that defines technical and operational requirements to protect PIN-based payment card transactions and the devices that process them.
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E.
PA-DSS
PA-DSS (Payment Application Data Security Standard) is a security standard that defines requirements for software vendors to ensure their payment applications securely handle cardholder data and support PCI DSS compliance.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard Target entity description: The PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard is a PCI Security Standards Council framework that defines security requirements and best practices for developing and maintaining payment software securely throughout its entire lifecycle.
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A.
PCI 3-D Secure Core Security Standard
The PCI 3-D Secure Core Security Standard is a payment security specification that defines technical and security requirements for implementing 3-D Secure authentication in card-not-present transactions.
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B.
PCI DSS
PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a global set of security requirements designed to protect cardholder data and reduce credit card fraud for organizations that handle payment card information.
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C.
PCI Security Standards Council
The PCI Security Standards Council is a global forum that develops and manages security standards for payment card data protection, including the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
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D.
PCI PIN Transaction Security
PCI PIN Transaction Security is a global security standard that defines technical and operational requirements to protect PIN-based payment card transactions and the devices that process them.
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E.
PA-DSS
PA-DSS (Payment Application Data Security Standard) is a security standard that defines requirements for software vendors to ensure their payment applications securely handle cardholder data and support PCI DSS compliance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
PCI SSC standard
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security standard ⓘ software lifecycle framework ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
organizations developing payment software in‑house
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payment application developers ⓘ software vendors ⓘ |
| domain |
payment security
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software security ⓘ |
| encourages |
continuous improvement of software security practices
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integration of security into software development lifecycle ⓘ |
| focus |
secure payment software lifecycle
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secure software development practices ⓘ secure software maintenance practices ⓘ |
| fullName | PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard ⓘ |
| geographicScope | global ⓘ |
| goal |
improve security of payment transactions
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support compliance with PCI payment security objectives ⓘ |
| governingBody | PCI Security Standards Council ⓘ |
| includes |
requirements for documentation and evidence of secure processes
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requirements for governance of software security ⓘ requirements for patch and update management ⓘ requirements for secure coding ⓘ requirements for secure software design ⓘ requirements for software testing and validation ⓘ requirements for vulnerability management in software ⓘ |
| lifecycleCoverage |
deployment phase
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design phase ⓘ development phase ⓘ maintenance phase ⓘ retirement phase ⓘ testing phase ⓘ |
| objective |
define security requirements for payment software development
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promote secure coding practices for payment software ⓘ reduce vulnerabilities in payment software ⓘ support ongoing security for in‑production software ⓘ support secure software change management ⓘ support secure software release processes ⓘ |
| partOf | PCI Software Security Framework ⓘ |
| publisher | PCI Security Standards Council ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
PCI Secure Software Standard
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linked to:
PCI Software Security Framework
PCI Software Security Framework ⓘ |
| riskAddressed |
data breaches involving payment data
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exploitation of insecure software changes ⓘ software vulnerabilities in payment applications ⓘ |
| scope |
payment software
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software lifecycle ⓘ |
| shortName | PCI Secure SLC Standard ⓘ |
| targetEnvironment | payment processing environments ⓘ |
| typeOfRequirement | industry standard ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard Description of subject: The PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard is a PCI Security Standards Council framework that defines security requirements and best practices for developing and maintaining payment software securely throughout its entire lifecycle.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Payment Application Data Security Standard
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supersededBy
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PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard
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linked to: PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard
linked to: PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard
linked to: PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard
linked to: PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard