With cyber threats increasingly sophisticated and prevalent it’s imperative for organisations to adhere to stringent security standards to protect sensitive financial information. One such standard that holds substantial significance is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). As a leader in the field of cyber security, Daisy understands the critical importance of PCI DSS compliance in safeguarding your organisation’s reputation, maintaining customer trust, and mitigating financial risks.
Overview
PCI DSS certification is a comprehensive framework established to ensure the secure handling, storage, and transmission of credit card and payment card information. Developed collaboratively by major credit card companies, PCI DSS certification is essential for businesses that handle payment card data to prevent data breaches, fraud, and unauthorised access. It encompasses a set of security requirements, including network protection, access controls, encryption, regular monitoring, and compliance reporting.
Achieving PCI DSS certification signifies an organisation’s commitment to safeguarding sensitive financial information and maintaining the trust of customers and partners in the payment card ecosystem.
PCI DSS Assessments
Through our work as Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs), our role is to:
- Help you understand your PCI DSS compliance obligations and options
- Support you through a development programme to deploy compliant systems, and remove others from scope
- Assess you against the standard, either as a merchant reporting to your bank, or as a service provider
We are well placed to understand the more challenging aspects of PCI DSS and are able to create solutions that are tailored to your particular challenges, ensuring you have a smooth route to compliance. We also support customers in gaining compliance following a breach of card data.
Whether you need multiple solutions or a single solution to fill the gaps in your existing technology or expertise, our nationwide team can provide the support your business may need.
How we work
Our aim is to support any organisation to achieve PCI DSS compliance and effective cyber security. Here are a few of the ways we do this:
Provide expert, vendor independent, technical and security advice
Always seek ways to reduce the scope of compliance to minimise costs and impact
Offer solutions to complex problems, such as legacy systems
Advise on the development of policies, procedures and standards
Analyse complicated and varied payment systems, to identify where PCI DSS does and doesn’t apply
Aid in completing self-assessment questionnaires (SAQ)
Conduct full assessments for organisations and service providers
As with all solutions, they will be specific to the organisation and as such, we take a tailored approach to ensure you are achieving compliance and meeting your security obligations.
Why Daisy?
Daisy has more than 20 years’ experience in the detection, investigation, and resolution of cyber security incidents:
- Through ECSC, a Daisy Group company, we are a Payment Card Industry (PCI) Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) company and have multiple PCI QSA accredited consultants
- We have the ISO 9001 (QMS) certification covering our consulting and security management systems
- Our staff have a wealth of PCI DSS experience in the retail and travel sectors and are well equipped to provide insight and guidance on how to become PCI DSS compliant
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