What is PCI compliance?
Saturday, 14th November 2009
by Maudi
I run a small ecommerce business and would like to know what is PCI compliance?
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Riley |
PCI compliance, Payment Card Industry compliance, addresses the need for all businesses which engage in the processing, storage and transmission of credit card information to maintain a specified level of security to protect their clients' credit card data as dictated by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards, PCI DSS. It addresses security issues such as network security, cardholder data storage, system and application security amongst other things.
PCI Data Security Standards can be found at
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pci_dss.shtml
PCI Compliance is required for any businesses that process transactions including any pre-paid, debit or credit cards associated with Amex, Discover, JCB, MasterCard and Visa.
PCI Compliance standards are developed and managed by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, PCI SSC, with the goal of improving payment account security throughout the transaction process. For more information on the PCI SSC you can visit the website at https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/index.shtml
A growing list of PCI Compliant web hosting companies can be found at http://www.developertutorials.com/online-services/web-hosting-78/pci-compliant-hosting-116/
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