Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard

Visa and MasterCard have developed the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard. American Express, Discover Card and JCB are also enforcing the compliance of these standards.

The standards must be implemented by all businesses, their web hosts, and shopping cart vendors. All parties must now adhere to six categories of PCI compliance including maintaining a vulnerability management program and regularly monitoring and testing networks.

Those businesses that don’t comply with these standards face fines upwards of thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars – and more - the possibility of customer cardholder data being hacked. We’ve seen all too often in the media businesses that are suffering from these unfortunate consequences.

Capital Payments only recommends equipment and software that is PCI compliant.

Here are some important resources on PCI compliance:

• Visa USA Merchants Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP).
• PCI Security Standards Council enhances payment account data security by fostering broad adoption of the PCI Security Standards. The organization was founded by American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa International.
• MasterCard Merchant Data Security Rules
• Data Loss Database - Open Source is a list of recent data security breaches.

PCI Security Compliance POS Scanning

Capital Payments works with McAfee, Inc., the largest web site security certification service, to provide one year of complimentary PCI point-of-sale scanning services to all ecommerce clients.

To take advantage of the complimentary PCI scanning services, please contact us at sales@capitalpayments.com or call us at 1-877-227-5087.