Re: PCI Compliance

[Kees Leune <C.J.Leune () UVT NL>]

Hello,

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:38:29PM -0400, Theresa M Rowe wrote:
> Has anyone had success with achieving compliance to the PCI standard?
>
> We've hit some confusion here.  If we:
>
> * license software that takes credit card payment over the web
> * and the web servers are located on our campus
>
> Aren't we obligated to make sure that the software is "PCI compliant" from the vendor?

All organizations that handle credit card payments in any form (store,
forward, accept, etc.) are required to ensure that they, but also all their
vendors (the entire chain) are PCI compliant.

So, technically, even if your entire organization is secure, but you use non
pci-compliant software to process credit card payments, you are in violation
of the standard.

Hope this helps,

Kees
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