by Natasja Bolton, Acquirer Support Manager, Risk and Assurance Division Ecommerce merchants are encouraged to reduce the risk of payment card data compromises in their online trading by outsourcing the acceptance and processing of cardholder data to validated PCI DSS compliant service providers. The simplest and cheapest option for small ecommerce merchants is to […]
by Natasja Bolton, Managing Information Security Consultant At Sysnet we often find that merchants are prepared to make changes to reduce the complexity or risk in how they handle and process cardholder data. They’ll consider new solutions to reduce their assessment scope or minimise their exposure to cardholder data, for example; outsourcing card handling to […]
If your organisation stores card data, you have an obligation under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard to protect it. Cardholder data is any information contained on a customers’ payment card. The primary account number or PAN, card security code, cardholder name and expiration date are printed on the front of the card and […]
