Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
ASV
An Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) is an entity that verifies whether a company’s PCI DSS external scanning requirements have been met. ASVs use techniques similar to those used by hackers, such as penetration testing, to run an external vulnerability assessment of a company’s network or website. A quarterly network scan by an approved scanning vendor is required for all complying businesses.
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