PCI Compliancy - Payment Card Industry Compliance
what is it? why all the fuzz? why me? why does Proffid remind us regularly with upgrades?
In short, any merchant ( you as a restaurant or hotel) working with creditcard information needs to do this securely. Who can acces what, why and how?Your software needs to encrypt , destroy and process any Creditcard information securely, only on a-need-to-know basis is Creditcard info handled through the software ( online creditcard interface). This will protect your valued customers, avoid fraud, and even exclusion from accepting creditcards, or worst-case ...lawsuits.
Therefor the PCI coucil is gaurding standards and software vendors should validate their PCI - compliance.
the organisation doing this can be found at http://www.pcisecuritystandards.org
and a brochure can be found at https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pcissc_overview.pdf
