Pci Dss Requirement 10

Feb 13
2011

How to simplify payment processing and PCI compliance

Each seller faces the complexity of the business and compliance requirements. From restaurants to dry cleaners, the challenges vary far and wide. However, the common requirement of each share is a need for means of safe, effective and affordable to get paid. Payment processing is a necessity for all businesses, and it comes with compliance mandates.

Retailers many decisions facing the management of their operations from day to day can be intimidating, but getting paid and maintaining compliance not be if traders have access to accurate information and good partners. Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a measure of security mandate to protect consumer cardholder data and trade. Compliance PCI is built on a bedrock of principles and requirements helps to secure personal data and protection of enterprise environments market. The main areas of concern for merchants and service providers to become and stay PCI compliant are listed below.

Build and maintain a safe

1: Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect data Holders
2: Do not default passwords of the system and the use of other security settings provided by Seller

Protect cardholder data

3: Protect stored data holder the card (or do not store it all)
4: Encrypttransmission of cardholder data across open, public networks

Maintain a vulnerability management program

5:, maintain and update anti-virus regularly Use
6: Maintain secure systems and applications

Implement access control measures

data Ownership: 7 Restrict access to one, if necessary, companies need to know basis
8: Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access
9: Restrict physical access to data

Monitor and Regularly test networks

10: Monitor and control access to network resources and cardholder data at any time
Test regularly: 11 security systems and processes on a

Maintain a policy Security Information

12: Establish and maintain policies against information security

A proven method for protecting cardholder data is to use payment processing services that use technology atomization.

Tokenization is the process of replacing sensitive data with values ​​that are not considered sensitive in the context of consumption of the environment the symbolic and the original data sensitive. Tokenization technology can be used with all types of sensitive data, including transactions banking, payment transactions, medical records or loan applications, to name a few.

According to Visa, atomization can be described as a process in which the PAN data is replaced by a proxy known as a "token". The security of an individual token is on the properties of uniqueness and the infeasibility of determining the origin PAN knowing only the replacement value. For reference or the replacement for the original PAN, a token can be used freely by the systems and applications within a market environment.

Card Not Present e-commerce transactions (CNP) at the retail point of sale (POS) transactions, there are tools and providers services available to help merchants achieve PCI compliance. However, depending on your approach to compliance, PCI can be complex, long and costly. An alternative to treating all related to PCI compliance tasks in the home is choosing a merchant service provider can assist in processing payments, cardholder data security and compliance certification. For example, electronic payment Exchange (EPX) and spray based ™ EPX BuyerWall system act as a platform for third treatment giving high priority to PCI compliance and service end to-end domestic and international payments at point of sale (POS) or online.

This approach puts a wall between cardholder data and the merchant by separating the card number information on sales and processing the transaction independently of the merchant or other suppliers. EPX is capable of doing that because he controls both the front and back end of the transaction. With EPX BuyerWall, the responsibility associated trade with the risk of processing, transmitting and storing sensitive data holder is significantly reduced because the sensitive data does not enter the system Merchant and its never stored by the merchant.

According to Steven Kendus, Marketing Director of EPX, "ensuring increased focus on PCI compliance, EPX is revolutionizing the payments industry through our platform, and integrated payment processing solutions that combine the atomization and encryption. "

Customer using solutions based tokens receive multiple layers of security protection for merchants and data holders are protected against data breach liability. "By integrating our patent-pending spray BuyerWall and encryption technology our payment solutions, we lead the way in helping merchants achieve compliance PCI, "adds Kendus.

providers of payment services as Electronic Payment Exchange that takes security and compliance into account to provide a critical need for retailers and independent sales organizations (ISO). They enable merchants to process secure transactions efficiently, which nets the customer service and retention for merchants.

To learn more about how EPX atomization of solutions based on the processing of payments to help merchants implement PCI compliance, visit EPX in online or in their Virtual Booth on PaymentsMarket.com

About the Author

Jeremy Drzal is Chief Engagement Officer for insideVirtual and Managing Editor for PaymentsMarket, the first and only virtual market for payment and fraud industry solutions.

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From 1st October 2009 all merchants processing less than 1 million transactions annually must process using a PCI DSS certified provider or provide certification of their own PCI DSS compliance to their acquirer.  This mandate follows changes to Visa’s Account Information Security Programme.

Acquiring banks are required to provide reports to Visa and Mastercard on all merchants with non-compliance issues.  The resulting fines levied by the card schemes can be high.  Daily fines can be levied and card processing facilities can be suspended if your system subsequently experiences a security breach.

A commonly held myth is that merchants need only to complete a self-assessment questionnaire to become PCI compliant.  If they are using their own payment pages merchants need to ensure that they comply with all twelve PCI DSS requirements.  Quarterly scans of the business network need to be done if cardholder data is stored, transmitted or processed on the network.  This also affects MOTO (mail order / telephone order) merchants that process card payments via a virtual terminal, even if they do not also process payments online.

More information can be found on the PCI Security Standard Council’s website.  Merchants can contact their payment service providers who should be able to offer advice based on the merchant’s payment processing package; it may be more convenient and more cost effective to move to a hosted payments package.  Merchants can also contact their acquiring banks who can provide checklists of what they require to confirm compliance.  PayPoint.net has also issued a guide to getting PCI compliant with information on what steps you need to take to meet the requirements.

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Rochelle Dancel is Online Marketing Specialist at PayPoint.net

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