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How to comply with the Payment Card Industry Standard

Overview The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standard applies to every organization that processes credit or debit card information, including merchants and third-party service providers that store, process or transmit credit card/debit card data.

This new set of guidelines and operational requirements went into effect June 30th, 2007, and companies outlined above are now required to adhere to the PCI standard. Failure to comply with the Payment Card Industry security standards may result in heavy fines, restrictions or permanent expulsion from card acceptance programs.

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Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Astaro AG	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2007	Downloads	6
Format	White Papers
Topics	PKI, Digital Signatures, SSL - TLS, E-commerce Security, Security Tools, Anti-Hacking, Security Standards, Data Recovery - Security, Best Practices

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