Is your Software PCI Security compliant? 

VISA, MASTER CARD, and AMERICAN EXPRESS have announced that they may stop taking credit-card transactions from websites whose software or network is not PCI Security compliant by July 10, 2010. The credit-card industry is demanding compliancy for credit-card protection on all websites.

 

Not only will VTS software be compliant, we will help you become compliant as well, and at a discounted rate.

If you are not PCI Security Certified and someone breaches your system and steals credit-card data, you could face fines starting at $10,000.  

    

 

Here is what one restaurant had to pay -  http://webreprints.djreprints.com/2044320204946.htm

 

  

What are the deadlines for complying with PCI DSS?

Compliance is mandated by the payment card brands and not by the PCI Security Standards Council. However, for most merchants, the deadlines for validating compliance with the PCI DSS have already passed. You should check with your acquirer and/or merchant bank to check if any specific deadlines apply to you, based on merchant transaction volume (level) as determined by the card payment brands. All entities that transmit, process or store payment card data must be compliant with PCI DSS.

I’m a small merchant who has limited payment card transaction volume. Do I need to be compliant with PCI DSS? If so, what is the deadline?

All merchants, whether small or large, need to be PCI compliant. The payment brands have collectively adopted PCI DSS as the requirement for organizations that process, store or transmit payment cardholder data. PCI SSC is responsible for managing the security standards while each individual payment brand is responsible for managing and enforcing compliance to these standards.

For questions regarding compliance validation requirements and deadlines as well as compliance reporting requirements, we recommend that you contact your acquirer. For more information regarding the PCI security standards and supporting documentation, including the “Navigating the PCI DSS” as well as targeted Self-Assessment Questionnaires to assist small- and medium-sized merchants, please visit the PCI SSC website at www.pcisecuritystandards.org