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The SAQ is a validation tool used primarily by Level 2, 3 and 4 merchants (and some smaller service providers), as defined by the major credit-card brands—Visa Inc., MasterCard Worldwide, Discover Financial Services, American Express and JCB International — to validate compliance with the PCI Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). The PCI SSC updated SAQ version 1.0 to better align with PCI DSS version 1.1 and created four variants to ensure merchants only answer questions relevant to their environment. Each of the four variants, labeled A, B, C and D have qualifying questions used to determine which of the four questionnaires a merchant is required to complete.

QualysGuard fully supports all four types of questionnaires, labeled A-D, including the ability to enter online comments for compensating controls, provide remediation action plan for non-compliant sections, complete attestation of the assessment and electronically sign the SAQ online. More details on the QualysGuard PCI implantation or SAQ 1.1 are available at: http://www.qualys.com/docs/QG_PCI_GSG.pdf within the PCI Questionnaires chapter.

In this upgrade, QualysGuard PCI now supports both the previous SAQ version 1.0, as well as the four forms of the new SAQ version 1.1, allowing merchants to choose which version they wish to complete. According to the PCI SSC, after April 30, 2008, the older SAQ version 1.0 will no longer be accepted for compliance validation. From that date forward, all merchants will be required to use the new SAQ version 1.1.