PCI Hosting

If you have visited a major retailer recently, you will have witnessed evidence that the holiday season is on its way. That means retailers flocking online to the high street to grab the latest bargains and heavily discount must-haves. With Black Friday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year just around the corner, retailers are preparing for a bumper eCommerce season, and most have spent all year planning for the peak festive season.

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Fourteen years have passed since Satoshi Nakamoto published a whitepaper on using cryptographically secured chains. This technology became known as the blockchain, a digitally distributed, decentralized system that records all the transactions made of any asset across the blockchain network. The assets can be tangible, such as cash, cars, and houses, or intangible such as intellectual property, copyrights, and patients.

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Getting your business prepared for PCI Compliance is a significant challenge because the Payment Card Industry is one of the most heavily regulated across the globe. Without PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance, growing businesses will not be authorized to process payments from the major players in finance.

The rules are strict, and the penalties for those who violate its rules are firm, which is why many turn to PCI Compliance Training Services to get their employees certified and ready before embarking on the PCI-DSS journey.

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Businesses involved with handling credit cards for payment need to maintain compliance with the PCI-DSS guidelines designed to ensure transaction security. Failure to adhere to the standards exposes a company to substantial financial fines. Companies that accept credit card payments need to exercise caution when engaging a public cloud provider.

This article will discuss the regulatory guidelines organizations must follow and take a look at the differences between a cloud and a dedicated hosting solution to establish PCI compliance.

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To secure credit card transactions and protect related data, the financial industry established operational and technical standards for maintaining the security of payment card transactions. Most notably, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council (which is backed by the leading credit card institutions) developed a set of standards known as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

Payment card companies usually require organizations to comply with PCI standards under their network agreements. PCI standards cover merchant processing and additional requirements such as encryption of Internet transactions. While PCI DSS is at the center of PCI compliance, the National Automated Clearing House (NACHA) and the Card Association Network have also set industry standards.

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With plenty of services to choose from, how do you decide which payment processing company best meets the needs of your business or organization?

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Incident response is a critical process in every organization. If you are processing or storing credit cardholder data, it becomes even more important and can impact your compliance with the PCI DSS standard. In this article, we’ll cover the basics of PCI DSS and explain how you should adapt your incident response process to comply with the standard and ensure the required level of protection for sensitive credit card information.

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What is PCI Compliance in the Cloud?

PCI-DSS (the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a set of security requirements designed and enforced by major credit card brands. The standards apply to anyone who stores or processes cardholder data.

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It is essential for any business that accepts credit and debit card payments to ensure that every transaction is as secure as possible. Each business has a responsibility to ensure that each online transaction, mobile app transaction, or chip and pin sale is protected.

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