PCI Compliance required if outsourcing?

["Eggleston, Mark" <meggleston () healthpart com>]

Hello PCI experts,

I've seen a lot of info re: PCI on this listserve and was wondering if
someone can help me.  If a company chooses to outsource PCI compliance
to a vendor, what are the PCI regulation requirements?  Specifically, if
a company uses a vendor/outsources for card payment processing what are
the compliance ramifications?  From what I can tell section 12 applies:

"If cardholder data is shared with service providers, then contractually
the following is required:
12.8.1 Service providers must adhere to the PCI DSS requirements
12.8.2 Agreement that includes an acknowledgement that the service
provider is responsible for
the security of cardholder data the provider possesses."

Anything else here to be concerned with?

Regards,

Mark Eggleston
Manager, Security and Business Continuity
Information Services
(215) 991-4388
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