5 PCI Compliance gaps
With the holiday shopping season coming up, and crooks lining up to take advantage of the stress and confusion, this is a good time for merchants to review their payment security procedures.
Maria Korolov | 26 Nov | Read more
With the holiday shopping season coming up, and crooks lining up to take advantage of the stress and confusion, this is a good time for merchants to review their payment security procedures.
Maria Korolov | 26 Nov | Read more
Can you hold Payment Card Information (PCI) data in a cloud-based service? Yes, but doing so isn't straightforward, so the PCI Security Standards Council has published a guideline that clarifies what approaches compliance-minded businesses can take.
Ellen Messmer | 07 Feb | Read more
Financial-industry managed services provider TAS Managed Services (TAS) is targeting full PCI compliance by 2013 and will offer its own clients a broader portfolio of security-auditing services after stitching up a long-term relationship with security consultancy Pure Hacking.
David Braue | 04 Dec | Read more
Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) refer to a set of standards that must be followed by big and small businesses alike when accepting, storing, processing and transmitting customers’ credit card information. To be compliant with PCI standards, all business owners, including online retailers, should adhere to 12 PCI compliance requirements for best security practices.
Businesses of all sizes must undertake PCI compliance auditing to ensure that their customers' data is protected during credit or debit card transactions and if stored within any internal business databases.
If you're business is obliged to undertake a PCI audit, then following a PCI Compliance checklist will ensure that you're security processes and payment processing meet the compliance standards. To ensure that you are meeting PCI compliance standards, you'll need to start by looking at what exactly PCI compliant means.
If you operate, own or hold a management role in an Australian business that stores, transmits and processes customer payment data, you may have recently been contacted by your bank regarding your PCI compliance status.
If you're wondering exactly what is PCI compliance, the chances are you're one of the many business owners in Australia who've asked themselves this same question. Before answering this question, it's useful to begin by looking at what PCI (and its counterpart DSS) stands for.
Prior to June hackers successfully breached “a series” of Australian merchants’ computers and gained customer card data, according to the Australian Federal Police.
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is to shortly carry out a series of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance assessments and reviews aimed at addressing any deficiencies or gaps in current ICT systems.
Tim Lohman | 29 Jun | Read more
Merchants who view security and payment card industry (PCI) compliance as an extra cost will be rueing the decision when hackers hoping to swipe credit card data strike, believes one industry specialist.
Hamish Barwick | 21 Apr | Read more
Tokenisation replaces protected data with a digital placeholder that applications use just as they would real Social Security or credit card numbers. But if you're hacked, the data is useless to criminals.
Robert McMillan | 04 Nov | Read more