PCI Compliance
Ensure that you are compliant with the Payment Credit Card Industries rules and regulations.
American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCP International, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa Inc. were the five founding partners who came together in 2006 forming the PCI Security Standards Council.
This Council is responsible for the development of the PCI Security Standards, including the Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS), and PIN Transaction Security (PTS) requirements.
If you accept credit cards as payment for goods or services within your organization, you are required to conduct your business activities in compliance with the PCI DSS standards and requirements.
The PCI Standards address all aspects of your operations relative to the use of credit cards including the policies and procedures that each employee must follow who comes in contact with credit card information, as well as requirements governing the manner in which technology is used within your organization as you process and store credit card data.
The following three steps describe how to become and maintain PCI Compliancy.
Step 1 – Assess
Identify all business process and technology vulnerabilities that pose risks to the security of cardholder data as it is transmitted, processed or stored by your business.
Step 2 – Remediate
Remediation is the process of fixing vulnerabilities that have been identified– including technical flaws in software code or unsafe practices in how an organization processes or stores cardholder data.
Step 3 – Report
Regular reports are required for PCI compliance; these are submitted to the acquiring bank and global payment brands that you do business with.
We specialize in…
- Assisting organizations to Assess their current environment,
- Develop an implementation plan that will Remediate all issues identified during the assessment, and
- Establishing Policies and Procedures to ensure that all appropriate aspects of business operations maintain a compliant environment and provide necessary PCI reports.
