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WPM Achieves PCI DSS Compliance
10 March 2010
WPM is one of the first European e–payment service providers to achieve enterprise–wide PCI DSS accreditation. This presents the culmination of a significant investment program and a rigorous audit by a PCI–certified third party Qualified Security Assessor (QSA), SysNet Ltd, of WPM’s applications, security systems, organisation, and data centre facilities.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a global standard covering the way in which card holder data should be handled, specifically covering its transmission, storage and processing.
It was developed in response to member, merchant, and service provider feedback regarding the need for a standard, best practice information security approach to safeguarding sensitive data and a unified method to achieve compliance to the various card scheme standards.
The PCI DSS was officially announced in January 2005. It was co–written by Visa and MasterCard and endorsed by the other leading card schemes. Therefore today, a merchant may achieve compliance to multiple card scheme specific, mandated, security programs through a single validation mechanism and standard – the globally accepted PCI Data Security Standard.
WPM’s compliance ensures our clients’ peace of mind and that the highest levels of security are maintained regarding their own and their customers’ data.