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PCI-PED Compliance - Security for POS Terminals

Pivotal Payments always maintains the highest standards of security for a trustworthy relationship with merchants. We understand that you need your business transactions to be safe, secure and well taken care of.

All our Hypercom Optimum credit card machines are PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant for full security in all business transactions. We ease your concerns so that you can take care of your customers with full peace of mind.

The founders of the PCI Security Standards Council are American Express, Discover Network, JCB, MasterCard® Worldwide and Visa International. Jointly, these companies work together to set forth PCI Data Security Standards that guide on the protection and handling of sensitive information.

The core groups of principles and requirements are:

  • Build and maintain a secure network
  • Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data
  • Never use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security parameters
  • Protect cardholder data and stored cardholder data
  • Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open public networks
  • Maintain a vulnerability management program
  • Use and regularly update anti-virus software
  • Develop and maintain secure systems and applications
  • Implement strong access control measures
  • Restrict access to cardholder data by business need-to-know
  • Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access
  • Restrict physical access to cardholder data
  • Regularly monitor and test networks
  • Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data
  • Regularly test security systems and processes
  • Maintain an information security policy
  • Maintain a policy that addresses information security

For more information on PCI compliance, PCI Data Security Standards or the PCI Security Standards Council, please visit the following websites:

To download the PCI DSS requirements:

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pci_dss.shtml

Discover Network information on PCI:

http://www.discovernetwork.com/fraudsecurity/disc.html

American Express information on PCI:

http://www.americanexpress.com/datasecurity

Visa information on PCI:

http://www.visa.com/cisp

MasterCard information on PCI:

http://www.mastercard.com/us/sdp/merchants/index.html

JCB information on PCI:

http://www.jcb-global.com/english/jdsp/index.html