[Novalug] Anyone know about Credit Card PCI Standards Compliance?

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

I would think that the people doing the audits would be able to provide 
you with the standards.

When I was with UUNET back in 1990 or so, I had the pleasure of writing 
my own credit card processing program. Many customers wanted to pay by 
credit card rather than sending in monthy checks. It was a Perl script 
which used one of our modems to dial up the bank, spoke their 
bastardized Bisync protocol, and sent Authorize abd Settlement 
transaction over the wire.

It wasn't that hard to do, but I wonder if you could do this now.

JIM

Stephan Greene wrote:
> One of my wife's clients has decided (or has been told) that they need 
> to be in compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security 
> standard.  And that my wife may need to do the same.  She's looking into 
> some low-volume approaches that won't require storing data 
> electronically, setting up encrypted file stores, getting a quarterly 
> PCI audit, etc.
> 
> While she's asking me questions about this as the resident IT and 
> business expert, I don't do anything with credit card processing and 
> this is all new to me.  Anyone here work with these systems?
> 
> References for the curious:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Security_Standard
> https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/index.shtml
> http://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Steve
> 
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