PCI Compliance

Major credit card issuers created PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance standards to protect personal information and ensure security when transactions are processed using a payment card. All members of the payment card industry (financial institutions, credit card companies and merchants) must comply with these standards if they want to accept credit cards. Failure to meet compliance standards can result in fines from credit card companies and banks and even the loss of the ability to process credit cards.

Standards that must be met in order for a retailer to be deemed compliant include:
Maintaining a secure network
Protecting Cardholder Data
Maintaining a Vulnerability Management Program
Implementing Strong Access Control Measures
Regularly Monitor and Test Networks
Maintaining an Information Security Policy

PCI Compliance is mandatory

The first step in PCI compliance is to meet the above standards. For all organisations that store, process, or transmit cardholder information, PCI Compliance is mandatory, and if you require PCI accreditations approved by Visa & MasterCard, you need to work with an accredited PCI Compliant provider, not a company that just has working standard, i.e. self assessed audits.

One of the greatest challenge to merchants when it comes to PCI complianceprogram.
If your web site accepts, processes or stores credit card information, you have to accept the responsibilities of being PCI compliant. It's a large responsibility and it requires a large amount of resources, tools and technologies to become and then stay compliant.

A customer owns PCI complianceprogram and should be in a position to validate, via an external third party, their compliance with the aspects of PCI DSS.

PCI Compliance - Macquarie Hosting has received its Report of Compliance
The report - (ROC) to PCI DSS was provided by an external Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) approved by the PCI board – which goes a long way in helping you on your PCI Compliance journey.
Macquarie Hosting delivers its mission critical application hosting platform services in accordance with the PCI DSS standard, which powers the operations of Australia’s most demanding businesses and federal government departments in its Australian Data Centre.

Macquarie Hosting, with more than 8 years of experience, we understand the challenges organisations face every day and have the expertise to build, manage and support application infrastructure platforms that are highly secure and accredited to the highest levels.

Nothing short of global best practice PCI standards is implemented in order to mitigate risks and enable control, the solutions that Macquarie Hosting deploys are designed to ensure the long term success of companies