PCI Compliance

Jan 6

(or PCI DSS, which stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)

If you accept payments by credit card then it’s likely that you will be within a PCI Compliance scope to some degree. If your Bank/Payment provider, or customers are asking for your PCI Compliance then you can easily complete a Self Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) and meet the requestors compliance.

Often people don’t realise that even if they are using a Payments Provider who has PCI Compliance, to process their transactions that they still need to be PCI Compliant. Usually this is very easy and straight forward and is essentially a declaration that the requirements for PCI Compliance are being met either by your business or the Payments vendor that you are using. In the 12 years that our team have been working in this field we have seen some real nightmares where businesses have used consultancy firms that have set the level of compliance at such a high level that it has nearly destroyed the business. Our aim is to help you reduce the level of PCI scope so that you can not only maintain your business without the high compliance costs but keep your compliance in-house and low cost.