First Data is going to launch a solution
called PCI Rapid Comply for small to mid-size merchants to help
them comply with PCI DSS standards.

The PCI DSS is aimed at helping merchants
implement hardware and software to storage sensitive credit card
and personal information.

Fist Data says the PCI Rapid Comply is an
easy-to-use online Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) and
vulnerability towards fraud and data breaches scanning tool that
will help merchants to achieve and maintain PCI DSS Compliance.

Bruce Dragt, senior vice-president and
division manager, payment acceptance at First Data said:

“Many smaller merchants have been under the
assumption that they need to be security experts to be PCI
compliant and the process can be overwhelming.”

Dragt added that the PCI Rapid Comply solution
allows merchants to easily complete the necessary SAQ online with a
built-in help which includes a live chat from First Data.

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“Because our customers are already in our
system, we can streamline the process by helping to pre-populate
some of the most difficult technical questions included in the
SAQ,” he said.

The PCI Rapid Comply solution also integrates
automatically-executed scans for merchants that are required to
perform quarterly vulnerability scanning.

As part of First Data’s data security
solutions, the PCI Rapid Comply includes the TransArmor solution
which uses tokenisation and encryption technologies to handle
sensitive payment card data.

In 2011, 96% of the 855 data breaches
investigated by the US authorities were due to lack of
non-compliance with PCI DSS, according to Verizon’s 2012 Data
Breach Investigations Report
.

 

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