Credit cards are a funny thing. As a consumer, I love the convenience of not having to carry cash and being able to quickly and easily swipe the card and get what I need. On the other hand, I hate opening the credit card statement every month and being faced with a stark reminder of everything I’ve purchased over the last 30 days…and the cost. From a business perspective, you want to make it easy on your customers to purchase your goods and services, but you have to hate those high fees issuers charge you to be able to accept their credit card.
When you think about it, credit cards give you enough to love and hate about them without adding more to it. You know, things like the worries of identity theft and the stress of handling people’s sensitive private information…much less being subjected to stringent rules and regulations regarding how to handle information gathered through credit card transactions.
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) has developed strict and comprehensive standards, called PCI Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) that help protect customer account data. Complying with these standards is not the easiest thing…they cover a multitude of requirements and elements, including the need to build and maintain a secure network, protect cardholder data, manage potential vulnerabilities, implement access control measures and more. Failing to comply can be costly and extremely detrimental to your business’ ability to conduct credit card transactions. Regardless of the challenges you may face implementing these regulations, they are important safeguards to help protect your customers. And compliance can save you the even costlier experience of misplacing customer credit card data and the damage that can cause to both your bottom line and your company’s brand equity.
With TelePacific’s OneSecure, we can help you manage a number of the PCI DSS requirements and give you the confidence of knowing that your customers’ data, as well as your company’s reputation and bottom line, are safe from identity thieves. In addition to providing SPAM filtering and VPN services, OneSecure can provide firewall protection, intrusion detection and prevention, vulnerability scanning, system virus and spyware protection and other services that are critical to PCI DSS compliance. All these services are conveniently packaged in OneSecure, which means you also get the great customer service and responsiveness for which TelePacific is known.
So let us help you get a handle on those requirements, reduce your stress and concentrate on keeping those credit card machines swiping cards and making sales. You’re going to need those when you have to pay those high credit card fees.
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