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Welcome to PCI Central
Your Complete Resource for Payment Card Industry Compliance

The major credit card brands established a PCI Security Standards Council in 2006 with the purpose of developing uniform regulations for all businesses that process, store, or transmit credit card data.

PCI-DSS

These guidelines were established to keep fraud and identity theft at bay. It is important to note that all merchants must comply by July 1, 2010 and are required to recertify every year. *

Deadline Extended!

July 31, 2010 **

Why PCI?

If you choose to accept credit cards, you also accept the responsibility of protecting cardholder information.

Regardless of how many transactions you accept or process, PCI is an important step in maintaining your merchant account. To ensure credit card transactions are secure through every step of the payment process, all parties in the payment industry are now required to be PCI Compliant.

You Need to Do Your Part

PCI Compliance is composed of two areas, how credit cards are processed through our systems AND how you handle credit card information within the walls of your office.

How Do I Become Compliant?

Every merchant needs to go through the formal process of validating their compliance by completing the following steps:

	Self Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) Answer questions about how your business processes credit cards.
	Implement Make necessary changes to standard operating procedures.
	Develop Security Policies Update or create security policies and procedures for how your office handles credit card data.
	Vulnerability Scanning Applies to those merchants transmitting credit card data over the internet.
	Get Certified Completed "Attestation of Compliance" to confirm that your business meets all PCI regulations.