That would be nice but it would be difficult for a fast food res
truant to not have a card reader :)

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Frank Muto
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> All the better to have a completely hosted service with a trusted merchant. 
> We have no CCRD information or even a card
> reader. We take no CCRD payments over the phone, by email, postal mail or 
> store CCRD information for recurring invoices. All
> of our invoices are sent via email with an online payment URL to make CCRD 
> payments or direct payments from their bank
> account or mailed in checks. Nonetheless, PCI worries are not on our watch.
>
>
> Frank Muto
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eje Gustafsson" <[email protected]>
> To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] PCI Compliance
>
>
>> PCI compliance only applies to section of the network where YOU process and
>> possibly store credit card information. If you have no over the net
>> processing and don't store credit cards then it's easy. You fill out the
>> form for terminal processing and just need to make sure the terminal itself
>> is in a "secured supervised" location, acknowledge that credit cards are not
>> saved or stored. If you save and store credit cards you need to certify that
>> you are not store the whole magnetic strip info or security codes for the
>> cards.
>> If things are done on computer you have a more complex questioner to fill
>> out. Are credit card info stored, if they are stored electronically the
>> server needs to be protected by some form of firewall and only people with a
>> need to know should be able to access the credit card details, part of the
>> card number should be blanked out on display, no security codes are allowed
>> to be stored. I assume your workstations and servers are on a separate
>> segment on your network and should be protected with a firewall against any
>> outside access (in the ISP case that also includes access from your
>> customers and not only from the internet itself). If you have a wireless
>> access point on that network segment it needs to be secured and only allow
>> specific access from allowed devices and some form of encryption on any
>> communication that reads/write credit card details. Database (or wherever
>> your credit cards are stored) needs to be secured.
>> If processing credit cards over the net you should have a end to end secure
>> connection from your customers computer to the credit card gateway
>> processor. So basically web page customer key in info needs to be secured by
>> either ssl or some other method that sends the data in encrypted secured
>> format. From your server to the processor the data also need to be secured
>> (no processor I am aware of even accepts a unsecure submission of credit
>> card details so this shouldn't be a problem on that basis).
>>
>> You also need to make sure that physical access to terminal and servers that
>> process and store credit cards is secured.
>>
>> Also in the questioner it's asked if you have policies in place how to
>> handle and treat credit cards, whom have access to them and what to do if
>> any kind of breach would happen.
>>
>> The PCI compliance is pretty open and doesn't have for most part specific
>> requirements when it comes to firewalls, how or what. If you store data and
>> process data on a computer that computer needs to be protected both
>> physically and virtually. Virtually can be a software firewall on the
>> machine itself or it can be a hardware based firewall in front of the
>> machine.
>>
>> Basically PCI compliance is all about common sense, ensure your servers are
>> safe from any type of intrusion or theft, not to write down credit cards on
>> scrap paper that is thrown in the trash, only allow access to credit card
>> info to the people that have to have access to it.
>>
>> There are different levels and types of PCI compliance depends on how you
>> process credit cards. Worst case scenario is if you have a regular credit
>> card terminal or process credit cards across the network on a e-commerce
>> type software (be it home written or professionally developed) and even
>> worse if you store credit card details.
>> Once you start filling out the questioner things will more than likely
>> become a bit more clearer for you.
>> If you store and process credit cards on computer than you need to as well
>> have a company that is doing a PCI scan of your server to ensure "hacker
>> proof" status. It will look for port vulnerabilities and web application
>> security issues.
>>
>> https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/saq/index.shtml
>>
>> For most people a self assessment is enough (except for server scanning
>> where an approved company needs to be used). If your company process a LOT
>> of credit cards per year no external auditor needs to be hired (not even my
>> company reaches the level where an external auditor is required but we have
>> to file twice annually because of our volume while most WISPs I would dare
>> to say would only be a level 4 which is the lowest level and would only need
>> to file once a year).
>>
>> / Eje
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>> Behalf Of RickG
>> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 1:21 AM
>> To: WISPA General List
>> Subject: [WISPA] PCI Compliance
>>
>> Email from my brother:
>>
>> Just got a letter from our credit card processor and we need to become
>> pci compliant. I noticed these routers I'm using from Qwest dont have
>> a firewall. Do I go software,hardware or both? Here is the link for
>> our routers.
>> http://www.qwest.com/internethelp/modems/motorola-3347/modemDetail_3347insta
>> llation.html
>>
>> He handles IT for 27 BK's in Denver. Thoughts?
>>
>
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