COVID 19 – INFO AND BLOG
COVID-19 has forced many organizations to quickly adapt their business and set up a digital presence. The eCommerce market has tremendously grown within the last year with online shopping and curbside pick-up becoming reliable ways for a business to continue to support its clients. Many businesses that are new to web payment processing or new to receiving payment over the phone may not be familiar with PCI Compliance. Payments being processed online and/or over the phone are at risk of exposing sensitive client payment information to outside parties. PCI Compliance helps ensure that client payment information is properly cared for and significantly lowers chances for a possible breach. HostedPCI can help you understand your compliance needs, educate you on the necessary steps for implementation and help you get the safety you need to protect your clients’ payment data. Protected payment information allows your business to continue to build trust between clients and your brand.
COVID-19 has rapidly changed a lot of things around the world. Nobody could have fathomed or prepared to deal with a pandemic of this size. Working from home has become the new normal for a lot of individuals and organizations which has come with its own set of challenges. Since we do not know when this pandemic will end or when we will be able to go back to our offices, we need to adapt our operations in order to continue supporting our consumers. One of these challenges is maintaining PCI compliance for call centers that have migrated to working from home and still need to accept the credit card number.
who had limited or no online presence are the most affected by this pandemic since they can no longer support their consumers. For this reason, many retailers are now forced to enter the online shopping world and set up their own website in order to ensure that they are aligned with the new normal. With e-commerce business and the process of accepting payments online brings forth the question “How to protect the sensitive information of cardholder data accepted online from any cyber frauds?”