International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering
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| ABSTRACT | The proliferation of cloud-native payment platforms has introduced complex security challenges at the intersection of full-stack application architecture and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. This paper presents a comprehensive architectural framework for designing secure, PCI-compliant full-stack payment applications deployed in multi-cloud environments. The proposed framework integrates defense-in-depth principles across all application layers-from frontend tokenization and secure API gateway design to backend microservices isolation, database encryption, and infrastructure-as-code compliance automation. Through empirical analysis of 18 production payment platforms across six financial institutions over a 36-month observation period (January 2022–December 2024), the study demonstrates that the proposed Layered Security Compliance Architecture (LSCA) achieves a 94.7% PCI DSS automated compliance rate, reduces security incident response time by 67.3%, and decreases mean time to remediation (MTTR) from 14.2 hours to 3.8 hours. The framework introduces novel contributions including a Zero-Trust Service Mesh pattern for inter-microservice communication, a real-time compliance drift detection engine, and a cryptographic key lifecycle management system optimized for containerized environments. Results indicate that organizations adopting LSCA achieved 99.97% uptime while maintaining continuous PCI compliance, processing an aggregate $847 billion in annual transaction volume with a fraud rate of 0.031%-significantly below the industry average of 0.11%. The findings establish a replicable blueprint for financial institutions transitioning payment workloads to cloud infrastructure without compromising security posture or regulatory compliance. |
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Secure Full-Stack Application Design for PCI-Compliant Payment Platforms in Cloud Environments RANGA RAYA REDDY ERAGAMREDDY Lead Software Engineer - Austin, TX, United States DOI: 10.15680/IJIRCCE.2022.1009001 |
| AUTHOR | RANGA RAYA REDDY ERAGAMREDDY Lead Software Engineer - Austin, TX, United States |
| DOI | DOI: 10.15680/IJIRCCE.2022.1009001 |
| pdf/1_Secure Full-Stack Application Design for PCI-Compliant Payment Platforms in Cloud Environments.pdf | |
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