PCI Compliance

PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. It was developed by the major credit card companies as a guideline to help organizations that process card payments prevent credit card fraud, hacking and various other security vulnerabilities and threats. A company processing, storing, or transmitting payment card data must be PCI DSS compliant or risk losing their ability to process credit card payments and being audited and/or fined. Merchants and payment card service providers must validate their compliance periodically.

This validation gets conducted by auditors - i.e. persons who are the PCI DSS Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs). Although individuals receive QSA status reports, compliance can only be signed off by an individual QSA on behalf of a PCI council approved consultancy. Smaller companies, processing fewer than about 80,000 transactions a year, are allowed to perform a self-assessment questionnaire. TMC is committed to helping you insulate your business against credit card fraud and the fines that can ensue. We hope the information in this section helps you better understand the mandates set forth by the card associations.

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