PCI

Understanding your PCI scope provides you the foundation for a clear and actionable path forward. It helps you identify the specific systems, processes, and people involved in handling cardholder data, ensuring that no critical areas are overlooked. This foundational understanding not only shapes your compliance strategy but also equips your organization to minimize risks, allocate resources effectively, and build robust security policies tailored to your unique operations.

Thousands of credit cards stolen in Green Bay Packers store breach: American football team Green Bay Packers recently notified fans of a cybersecurity breach involving their official online store, Packers Pro Shop. In October 2024, malicious actors hacked the website, embedding a card skimmer script designed to steal sensitive customer information, including payment details.

Broadband providers face a unique set of challenges, when accepting customer payments by phone, including managing operational costs, meeting customer expectations, and ensuring data security. Interactive Voice Response - IVR Payment technology provide a powerful solution to these challenges, enabling providers to automate payment processes, enhance efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction.

Having staff accept credit card payments over the phone can be a convenient option for businesses and organizations, but it also brings with it specific security obligations under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). For organizations that manually enter customer credit card data into a virtual terminal (VT), compliance isn’t just about using a PCI-compliant virtual terminal or PCI compliant card entry application; it begins well before the card information is keyed in. Let’s explore what the PCI DSS requires for handling these transactions, particularly under the Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) C-VT, and discuss some alternatives that can reduce your PCI compliance burden.

The PCI Security Standards Council has just made it easier for businesses to check if they’re meeting the latest security standards by releasing updated Self-Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs) for PCI DSS v4.0.1.

Strengthening Web Application Security with Behavior-Based Defenses: Meeting PCI 4.0 eSkimming Requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1.

Protecting sensitive payment data accepted over the phone while managing PCI compliance can be overwhelming. That is why Datatel now offers a bundled services solution that provides a simple, powerful way to secure your payments by Phone while reducing your PCI compliance workload.

Learn simple PCI guidelines to help nonprofits protect donor data and secure credit card transactions, ensuring compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)

IBM Report – Data Breaches Reach $4.88 – Million in 2024 – Leveraging PCI Compliance to Combat the Growing Issue of Data Breaches

On March 31, 2022, the PCI Security Standards Council released PCI DSS v4.0.1, the latest update to these crucial security guidelines. The older version, PCI DSS v3.2.1, remained valid until March 2024. After that date, compliance of the new PCI DSS v4.0.1 requirements became mandatory.