PCI DSS compliance checklist

Streamline PCI DSS compliance with our security checklist. Ensure data security, protect customer information, and meet industry standards.
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Topic
Compliance
Updated
6 Nov 2025

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Is your app PCI DSS compliant?

If your mobile app accepts, processes, stores, or transmits payment card information, you will need to meet certain accepted industry standards to become PCI compliant.

Meeting these standards can be achieved by following a number of objectives and guidelines.

This checklist covers:

In this checklist, you will find several of the technical guidelines for apps accepting electronic payments on mobile devices found in section 4 in the PCI Mobile Payment Acceptance Security Guidelines for Developers, and a high-level overview on how app shielding software can help you meet them.

This checklist covers:

  • How to prevent unauthorized logical device access
  • How to create server-side controls and report unauthorized access
  • How to prevent escalation of privileges
  • How you harden your applications
  • How to ensure secure coding, engineering and testing
  • How you protect the mobile app from unauthorized applications
  • How to protect your mobile app from malware
  • How you provide an indication of secure state

Highlights from the report

If your mobile app accepts, processes, or transmits payment card information, you need to meet industry standards like PCI and DSS for handling and protecting this information. Here's how to become compliant.
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Secure coding
Align with PCI DSS Section 6
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Malware protection
Critical guideline
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App hardening
Prevents code tampering
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