EMV 3‑D Secure (3DS) - Payment Authentication Protocol
What is EMV 3‑D Secure (3DS) - Payment Authentication Protocol?
EMVCo EMV 3-D Secure (3DS), the messaging protocol that enables consumer authentication for card-not-present e-commerce transactions (the basis of Visa Secure, Mastercard Identity Check, etc.). 3DS uses a three-domain model (Acquirer, Issuer, Interoperability domains) and the roles 3DS Requestor, 3DS Server, Directory Server (DS), Access Control Server (ACS) and 3DS SDK, exchanging Authentication (AReq/ARes), Challenge (CReq/CRes) and Results (RReq/RRes) messages to support frictionless (risk-based) and challenge (step-up) authentication across browser and app channels. It comprises 53 controls organised across 6 domains, and applies in International (EMVCo - standards consortium).
How EMV 3‑D Secure (3DS) - Payment Authentication Protocol maps to other frameworks
All 53 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 6 domains EMV 3‑D Secure (3DS) - Payment Authentication Protocol groups its controls into
Where EMV 3‑D Secure (3DS) - Payment Authentication Protocol overlaps with the standards you already hold
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Query EMV 3‑D Secure (3DS) - Payment Authentication Protocol programmatically
EMV 3‑D Secure (3DS) - Payment Authentication Protocol, its 53 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
EMV 3‑D Secure (3DS) - Payment Authentication Protocol API reference and MCP config →What EMV 3‑D Secure (3DS) - Payment Authentication Protocol requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one EMV 3‑D Secure (3DS) - Payment Authentication Protocol control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- 05 Access Control Server (Issuer Domain)
- 11 Frictionless flow
- 12 Challenge flow
- 14 Challenge authentication methods
- 16 App-based channel and device information
- 18 Risk-based authentication
- 19 Strong Customer Authentication support and exemptions
- 20 Message security and key management
- 21 Cardholder data protection and minimisation
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