Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: Slightly OT: Credit Card acceptence and processing

2006-12-14 Thread Dean H. Saxe
The real cost is if you do things wrong and lose a credit card number. IIRC its $50k/incident if you are not in compliance with the ever changing PCI DSS standard. FWIW, I don't care if you're using 128 bit AES. I care that you are using it correctly, which is not a trivial thing to do

[ACFUG Discuss] Re: Slightly OT: Credit Card acceptence and processing

2006-12-13 Thread Mike Staver
Going way back to 2004 posts here, is there a monthly fee for this? Derrick Peavy wrote: Use Costco with CFXNova 1. Join Costco at executive level ($100) 2. Apply for merchant account ($35) 3. You now have a merchant account for $135 4. Download CFXNova for 30 day trial. 5. With CFXNova,

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: Slightly OT: Credit Card acceptence and processing

2006-12-13 Thread Dean H. Saxe
What about the costs of compliance with the PCI DSS standard? Figure that into your equation before trying to accept credit cards. -dhs Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are

Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: Slightly OT: Credit Card acceptence and processing

2006-12-13 Thread Dean H. Saxe
Yes, but the scanning is dirt cheap. If you hang on to the data, that's when compliance can get expensive. -dhs Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who