PCI PIN Security · PIN Security Requirements · Evidence & Implementation Kit
Meet the PCI PIN Security Requirements, without mapping seven control objectives to evidence yourself.
Every PCI PIN requirement handed to you as an adopt-ready control, from secure PIN entry and key generation through key conveyance, usage and the full key lifecycle, with the evidence a PIN assessor examines.
Assessment-ready in a weekend, not a quarter.
Here is the honest situation. If you process, transmit or manage PINs and PIN-encryption keys, you are assessed against the PCI PIN Security Requirements: seven control objectives covering secure PIN entry on approved devices, key generation, conveyance and loading under dual control and split knowledge, key usage and separation, the full key lifecycle, and secure device management. Building all of that and assembling the assessment evidence is weeks of work, and a key-management gap or a device without a chain of custody is exactly what fails a PIN assessment.
This Kit removes that build. It is every PCI PIN requirement written as an adopt-ready control you personalize in a weekend, with the evidence a PIN assessor examines.
What you get, the moment you buy
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Objectives as adopt-ready controls. Every PCI PIN requirement across the seven control objectives, from secure PIN entry and key generation through conveyance, usage, the key lifecycle and device management, written so you personalize and apply it.
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Evidence-they-examine checklists. For each control, exactly what a PIN assessor examines, plus where PIN assessments fail, so you close the gap first.
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PIN Security Control Matrix, pre-built. Every requirement in a working spreadsheet, ready to record status and evidence location across your PIN and key operations.
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Gap & Readiness Assessment. Score each requirement and the workbook returns your readiness as a single percentage, and exactly what to fix next.
Grounded in the PCI PIN Security Requirements across the seven control objectives, with secure cryptographic devices, dual control and split knowledge, and the key lifecycle called out. Editable Word and Excel files.
Dual control and split knowledge run through everything
The PCI PIN Requirements return again and again to two principles: no single person can access a key, and keys live only inside secure cryptographic devices. This Kit builds dual control and split knowledge into the key conveyance, loading and administration controls, so the principle that underpins the assessment is enforced throughout.
What one control looks like
This is secure key loading under dual control, an objective a PIN assessor probes hard. All 32 are built to this depth.
PIN-9 No key ever exists in clear text outside a secure device KEY LOADING
Implement this control
[Organization] shall ensure that any cryptographic key existing outside a secure cryptographic device does so only in encrypted form under a key of equal or greater strength, or as two or more full-length components or shares held under dual control and split knowledge, and shall never allow a complete plaintext key to appear in host memory, storage, or transit.
Assessor note.
Wrapping under a weaker key defeats the protection. Equal or greater strength is the rule for any encrypted key conveyance.
Evidence a PIN assessor examines
- Key management design showing keys leave devices only encrypted or as components
- Procedures enforcing dual control and split knowledge for any component handling
- Review confirming no host process assembles a full plaintext key
- Records of component custodian assignments
Common finding they raise: A key export path used during migration returns a wrapped key to a host, but the wrapping key strength was never checked against the exported key strength.
Why this is not another template pack
- The evidence is the point. A control you cannot evidence fails the assessment. This tells you exactly what a PIN assessor examines and where assessments fail, for every objective.
- The key lifecycle in full. Key generation, conveyance, loading, usage, replacement, compromise and destruction are each built as controls, following ISO 11568 key-management principles.
- Built on a mapped compliance corpus, not one person's opinion, from a graph of thousands of controls across standards.
- It compounds. PCI PIN pairs with PCI P2PE and PCI DSS, so this work feeds your wider payment security program.
Who buys this
Acquirers, processors, key-injection facilities and others that handle PINs and PIN-encryption keys, plus the security and cryptography leads who own PIN assessments. Whether it is a first assessment or a reassessment, you save weeks and walk in with the controls and evidence ready.
By the end of the weekend you will have
✓ An adopt-ready control for all 32 requirements
✓ A completed PIN security control matrix
✓ The evidence a PIN assessor examines
✓ Your key lifecycle under dual control defined
✓ A readiness percentage and a fix list
✓ The common assessment failures designed out
Common questions
Is it really editable? Yes. Word and Excel files you own and adapt. No portal, no subscription.
Who is this for? Entities that process, transmit or manage PINs and PIN-encryption keys: acquirers, processors and key-injection facilities.
Does it cover key management? Yes. The full key lifecycle under dual control and split knowledge, using secure cryptographic devices, is the core of the Kit.
How does it relate to P2PE? PCI PIN and PCI P2PE share cryptographic and key-management principles. The Kit fits alongside a P2PE program.
What if it is not for me? A 30-day money-back guarantee.
Do not map seven objectives to evidence by hand.
Every PCI PIN requirement is fast to adopt with the Kit. It is instant, and it is guaranteed.
Add it to your cart and be assessment-ready this weekend.
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