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What are common methods to reduce PCI DSS scope?

A.Only using encryption, because the standard defines scope by physical location rather than by data flow
B.Ignoring certain systems, a conclusion v4.0 reaches automatically for any component running a validated payment application, which is descoped without segmentation testing or data-flow analysis
C.Reducing the number of employees
D.Network segmentation, tokenization, P2PE, and outsourcing payment processing to PCI-compliant providers

Why D is correct

Scope reduction methods include network segmentation, tokenization (replacing PANs with tokens), P2PE (encrypting data from the point of interaction), and outsourcing to compliant providers.

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Covers scoping segmentation concepts and practices within PCI DSS.

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