The Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework (SSF) is a collection of Software Security Standards and validation programs that were developed by PCI SSC to ensure secure design, development, and maintenance of software in the payment industry and environment.
The framework typically applies to any type of payment software submitted by a software vendor for validation under the PCI Software Security Framework, regardless of the software functionality and its underlying technology. The software security framework focuses on the security practices that support both the traditional and modern methods of application security and development practices. The framework is built on the fundamentals of security principles and objectives that support the design and development of secure software, regardless of the type of software or the industry in which they are used.
That said, the PCI SSF standard has 4 security objectives each of which comprises certain security control requirements. Elaborating this in detail we have today explained the objectives and the security controls of the PCI SSF Framework.
