Payment Card Industry Compliance
Procedures that are a mandatory set of procedures of the Payments Card Industry holds high-level compliance & strict security measures preventing hacking & fraud management.
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)
The PCI-DSS or Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards is a set of highly technical and operational requirements containing goals, reqs. & sub-requirements. These are mandatory for the maintenance of payments security standards developed by (PCI SSC), or the PCI Council. These are highly endorsed by the founding members from the financial industry which includes MasterCard, Visa Debit, American Express, Discover Financial Services, & JCB Int.
To Whom It Applies?
This applies to all the relevant entities in electronic payment Eco-environment which is responsible for storing, processing, and/or transmitting the card holder data. It can also impact the security of data as well as the systems of the Cardholder’s Data Environment (CDE).
The operations in the set of compliance procedures includes both the Merchants and the service provider to Merchants, includes provision of services like Data Centre, Cloud Services, Call Center and Storage Services etc.
Benefits To Your Business?
A wide variety of benefits are attached with PCI Compliance for businesses of almost all types including ‘The Business Advantage’
Trustworthiness
A huge advantage for new businesses especially is regards to the trust factor that is associated with PCI compliance.
Security
Business needs financial security apart from business insurance & PCI Compliance is all set to provide that to new & established businesses.
Continuous Improvement
With the passage of time bringing continuous improvements in PCI Compliance procedures adds on substantially to the competitive advantage.
HOW CAN WE HELP TOWARDS SECURITY?
The PCI Compliance procedures are a set of on going processes and an integral part of your business operations.
They ensure to highly safe & secure extents that your business achieves and maintains PCI-DSS compliance with our Team of consultants always there with the best possible advice.
Scope
GAP Analysis
Remediation
Validation
Maintenance
Reporting
OUR GOALS WITH PCI-DSS
The following are a set of goals attached with the PCI-DSS which are regulatory PCI compliance procedures in place.
2. No usage of the vendor-supplied defaults for the system passwords & other security parameters.
3. Protecting Stored data from cardholders.
4. Encrypt transmission of data across open and public networks.
5. Usage and regularly updating anti-virus software of programs.
6. The development & maintenance of secure systems and applications.
7. Restrict Access with checks.
8. Assigning unique ID to everyone with computer access.
9. Restriction of physical access to cardholder’s data.
10. Tracking & monitoring all the access to network resources.
11. Regular testing of security systems & processes.
12. Maintaining an IS Policy that helps in addressing the information security protocols for the employees & contractors.
Payment Application Data Security Standards
(PA DSS)
Plan
The process of security awareness needs to have an aligned strategy and a highly risk free plan.
Train
Staff training procedures regards to the relevance levels attached to Security Awareness is a must in PCI Compliance.
Monitor
Monitoring of activities especially in relation to Security Awareness Training is the next level for best & desirable results.
Reinforce
Reinforcement of training & monitoring activities is all part of the Security Awareness Training & PCI Compliance procedures.
Security Awareness Training
Security awareness, an essential part of the PCI DSS environment for better compliance options. Training regards to Security Awareness will empower staff and helps a great deal in the understanding of different attack strategies used by hackers for gaining access. Through the vital use of technology we can help in implementation of best practice behavior for the protection of card holder’s data.
Plan
The process of security awareness needs to have an aligned strategy and a highly risk free plan.
Train
Staff training procedures regards to the relevance levels attached to Security Awareness is a must in PCI Compliance.
Monitor
Monitoring of activities especially in relation to Security Awareness Training is the next level for best & desirable results.
Reinforce
Reinforcement of training & monitoring activities is all part of the Security Awareness Training & PCI Compliance procedures.
Security Awareness Training
Security awareness, an essential part of the PCI DSS environment for better compliance options. Training regards to Security Awareness will empower staff and helps a great deal in the understanding of different attack strategies used by hackers for gaining access. Through the vital use of technology we can help in implementation of best practice behavior for the protection of card holder’s data.
To whom it applies?
PA-DSS applies to the third party applications that are responsible to store, process and transmit Cardholder’s data for authorization or settlement procedures. For sake of achieving the compliance the developers must have their application audited by a PA-QSA, i.e. Payment Application Qualified Security Assessor. Also needs revalidation in case of any major changes made.
- Do not retain full track data,card validation code or value(CAV2,CID, CVC2, CVV2) or PIN block data
- Protect stored cardholder data
- Provide secure authentication features
- Log Payment Application Activity
- Develop Secure Payment Applications
- Protect wireless transmissions
- Test Payment Applications to address vulnerabilities and maintain payment application updates
- Facilitate secure network implementation
- Cardholder data must never be stored on a server connected to the Internet
- Facilitate secure remote access to payment application
- Encrypt sensitive traffic over public networks
- Secure all non-console administrative access
- Maintain a PA-DSS Implementation Guide for customers, resellers, and integrators
- Assign PA-DSS responsibilities for personnel, and maintain training programs for personnel, customers, resellers, and integrators
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