PCI Compliance

PCI DSS Compliance is mandatory

The PCI DSS- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is a worldwide information security standard assembled by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council . For any organisation that stores, processes, or transmits cardholder information, PCI Compliance is mandatory.

If your organisation requires 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.

The standard was created to help organizations that process card payments prevent credit card fraud through increased controls around data and its exposure to compromise. The standard applies to all organizations which hold, process, or pass cardholder information from any card branded with the logo of one of the card brands.

Perhaps 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 significant and large responsibility and one that requires a large amount of resources, tools , expertise and technologies to become and then stay compliant. It is not a role to take on lightly.

The role of hosting providers

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

With credit card data theft from large companies and organizations continuously hitting the headlines in Australia; card issuers are now demanding more from ecommerce merchants, large and small, to ensure that transactions occurring via their sites are secure.

Macquarie Hosting and its Report of Compliance (ROC) to PCI DSS

Macquarie Hosting has received a ROC 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 understand s the challenges organisations face very day and with  over 8 years of experience, we have built the expertise to build, manage and support application infrastructure platforms that are highly secure and accredited to the highest levels.

Implementing global best practice PCI standards to mitigate risks and enable control, the solutions that Macquarie Hosting deploys are designed to ensure the long term success of companies

What's Involved with PCI Compliance?

PCI compliancefor most online businesses, that is merchants processing up to 6 million transactions a year, consists of two main elements: 
1. An automated scan of your site and the server you're hosted on by an authorized scanning vendor every 3 months
2. Yearly self assessment questionnaire

Contact us for more information on PCI compliance for your Hosting needs - highly secure and always available infrastructure platforms.