The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a thorough process that reviews companies' systems and policies for handling and storing sensitive consumer cardholder data, ensuring end users' data is kept safe and secure. PCI compliance is crucial in the payments industry, with MasterCard and Visa mandating merchants and service providers to be compliant, imposing penalties for non-compliance. The compliance process involves a series of checks by accredited third-party auditors to ensure secure data handling processes are in place. Static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) tools can help meet PCI DSS requirements, with Snyk providing a platform to handle both needs. By using Snyk, developers can streamline the PCI compliance process, automate scanning into CI/CD pipelines, and document ongoing issues, making it easier to stay compliant.