Make security a priority. Businesses not in compliance risk compromise, fines, and jeopardize their ability to accept card payments. Know your compliance responsibilities.
Compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) is critically important. To keep sensitive data off your network and systems, use a token in place of the original payment data. This is of particular importance in a business-to-business and business-to-government sales environment where repeat and recurring orders are the norm.
Our Level 3 API solutions support tokenization. If cardholder data is directly entered into your software application, it is considered to be a payment application and falls in scope for PCI. Tokenization (storing customer profiles off site) is the best practice when designing your card acceptance strategy, eliminating the risk of exposing the actual sensitive data while making it faster, easier and less expensive to meet quarterly and/or annual PCI compliance requirements.
Use our Secure Checkout feature to avoid becoming the target of data security attacks by getting out of the business of transmitting, processing and storing sensitive card data.
To learn more about PCI and compliance, visit our PCI resource page at http://www.vantagecard.com/resources/PCI_Data_Security.html.