What is PCI

Q: What is PCI?

When most people hear PCI they think of the PCI-DSS Payment Card Industry-Data Security Standards.

Below is a video produced by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Council.  Entertaining and informative.

Top security practices (web browsing)

When our customer service team trains our client's staff they notice vulnerabilities in the organization's IT environment.  Many of these organizations are smaller and don't think they are at risk, however, they are more at risk by failing to implement simple and often free practices into their daily work routine.  

Below is a listing of general recommendations our customer service team has provided:

• Set your anti-virus and anti-spyware software to auto-update. 
• Use an Internet firewall (hardware or software). 
• Don't click pop-ups and never download files from websites you don't trust. 
• When making online transactions, be sure web addresses begin with https (not http) and look for a key or padlock icon in your browser window. 
• Upgrade your Internet browser. Newer browser versions support advanced security features, such as phishing site detection and extended security certificates. 
• Don't surf to other sites while you're visiting a secure site; finish your work within the secure site, sign out and close your browser before you move on.

Connected Pay's team of CPA's can help prevent security issues you may encounter.  For more information on PCI Security Standards, or best practices for web browsing, click Operations Consulting.    

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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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