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Monday, May 17, 2010

Get PCI Compliant by July 1, 2010

According to Visa, merchants, service providers and their agents are required to use payment applications that support the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), by July 1, 2010 in an effort to mitigate emerging security risks.


Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.org noted more than 234 million records with sensitive information have been
breached since January 2005.


DON'T WAIT UNTIL JULY 1, 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Becoming PCI compliant shouldn't be a burden.  Click here for the self assessment questionnaire.


If you want Connected Pay to do the work, we offer a product called CertifyPCI™.  This product was designed specifically to streamline the PCI Certification process in an effort to help merchants easily achieve a higher level of security. CertifyPCI™ is an automated web based process to PCI certify qualified merchants in minutes. Innovative Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) selection procedure to make sure the appropriate document is chosen for merchants.


After all of the questions have been correctly answered, the merchant will be able to generate a pdf that attests to their certification.

They can also place a seal on their web page that attests to their PCI Certification. 


When consumers click on the seal, the following image is presented:



Additionally, the Customer Vault on the gateway offered by Connected Pay can help make your organization PCI compliant if you are storing card data on internet facing IP addresses.


Contact Connected Pay today to take advantage of our quick and easy PCI Certification tools.


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