PCI Software Security Framework · SSF · Evidence & Implementation Kit
Validate against the PCI Software Security Framework, without mapping two standards to evidence yourself.
Every PCI SSF requirement handed to you as an adopt-ready control, across both the Secure Software Standard for your product and the Secure SLC Standard for your development practices, with the evidence an SSF assessor examines.
Validation-ready in a weekend, not a quarter.
Here is the honest situation. The PCI Software Security Framework replaced PA-DSS with two standards: the Secure Software Standard, which validates a specific product, and the Secure Software Lifecycle Standard, which validates how you develop. That covers critical-asset protection, cryptography, software integrity and secure updates on the product side, and governance, secure engineering and vulnerability disclosure on the lifecycle side. Building both and assembling the assessment evidence is weeks of work, and confusing the product standard with the lifecycle standard, or a weak vulnerability-disclosure process, is exactly what fails an SSF validation.
This Kit removes that build. It is every PCI SSF requirement written as an adopt-ready control you personalize in a weekend, across both standards, with the evidence an assessor examines.
What you get, the moment you buy
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Both standards, adopt-ready. Every SSF requirement across the Secure Software Standard for your product and the Secure SLC Standard for your development, written so you personalize and apply it, with the product-versus-lifecycle boundary made clear.
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Evidence-they-examine checklists. For each control, exactly what an SSF assessor examines, plus where SSF validation fails, so you close the gap first.
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SSF Control Matrix, pre-built. Every requirement in a working spreadsheet, ready to record status and evidence location across both standards.
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Gap & Readiness Assessment. Score each requirement and the workbook returns your validation readiness as a single percentage, and exactly what to fix next.
Grounded in the PCI Software Security Framework across the Secure Software Standard and the Secure SLC Standard, with critical-asset protection, cryptography, software integrity, secure updates and vulnerability disclosure called out. Editable Word and Excel files.
Two standards, one boundary vendors get wrong
The Secure Software Standard validates your product; the Secure SLC Standard validates how you build. Vendors constantly blur them. This Kit separates the two and cross-references where they meet, so you know which control belongs to the product and which to the lifecycle, and your validation scope is right.
What one control looks like
This is critical software asset identification, where SSF product security begins. All 32 are built to this depth.
SSF-1 Critical software asset identification and inventory SECURE SOFTWARE
Implement this control
[Vendor] shall identify and maintain a documented inventory of all critical software assets within the payment product, including account data, cryptographic keys, authentication credentials, configuration data, audit logs, and executable code, and shall classify each asset according to its confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements so that protection mechanisms are applied proportionate to risk.
Assessor note.
Maps to Secure Software Standard Control Objective 1. The asset inventory is the foundation an assessor traces every other requirement back to.
Evidence an SSF assessor examines
- Critical asset inventory listing each asset, its data type, and its classification
- Data flow diagrams showing where account data and keys are stored, processed, and transmitted
- Risk classification methodology defining confidentiality, integrity, and availability tiers
- Change record showing the inventory was reviewed after the most recent software release
Common finding they raise: Vendors often inventory account data but omit cryptographic keys, audit logs, and configuration files, leaving those assets outside the protection scope.
Why this is not another template pack
- The evidence is the point. A control you cannot evidence fails validation. This tells you exactly what an SSF assessor examines and where validation fails, for every requirement.
- Product and lifecycle, separated. The Secure Software product controls and the Secure SLC lifecycle controls are separated and cross-referenced, the boundary vendors most often get wrong.
- Built on a mapped compliance corpus, not one person's opinion, from a graph of thousands of controls across standards.
- It compounds. The SSF replaced PA-DSS and sits alongside PCI DSS, so this work feeds your wider payment software security program.
Who buys this
Payment software vendors pursuing SSF validation for a product or their development lifecycle, plus the security and engineering leads who own it. Whether it is a first validation or a revalidation, you save weeks and walk in with both standards and the evidence ready.
By the end of the weekend you will have
✓ An adopt-ready control for all 32 requirements
✓ A completed SSF control matrix
✓ The evidence an SSF assessor examines
✓ Your product and lifecycle scope separated
✓ A validation-readiness percentage and a fix list
✓ The common validation failures designed out
Common questions
Is it really editable? Yes. Word and Excel files you own and adapt. No portal, no subscription.
What are the two standards? The Secure Software Standard validates a specific product; the Secure Software Lifecycle Standard validates your development practices. This Kit covers both and separates them.
Did it replace PA-DSS? Yes. The Software Security Framework is the successor to PA-DSS. This Kit builds to the current SSF standards.
Does it cover vulnerability disclosure? Yes. Vulnerability disclosure and stakeholder communications are their own control group, because a weak disclosure process fails validation.
What if it is not for me? A 30-day money-back guarantee.
Do not map two standards to evidence by hand.
Every SSF requirement is fast to adopt with the Kit. It is instant, and it is guaranteed.
Add it to your cart and be validation-ready this weekend.
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