{"id":5503,"date":"2010-07-20T11:03:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T11:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webstix.com\/2010\/07\/20\/pci-compliance-for-websites\/"},"modified":"2010-07-20T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T11:03:21","slug":"pci-compliance-for-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/the-webstix-blog\/pci-compliance-for-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"PCI Compliance for Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>PCI Compliance Resources<\/h2>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9865\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sign-1781609_640.jpg\" alt=\"open sign\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you run an e-commerce website, your merchant account provider is going to make sure that you are PCI compliant. Part of the compliance is with your website. It&#8217;s important to know that how your website is set up is only a part of the total PCI Compliance standard &#8211; not the whole thing. There are other parts that include the computer(s) you use to access the website to check for payments.<\/p>\n<p>Webstix has helped a number of clients become PCI Compliant with their website. If we get the reports, then we can make whatever adjustments are needed on the website and\/or server to help your website become PCI Compliant. Since we&#8217;ve done this for a number of sites, our servers are in good shape in regards to being PCI Compliant.<\/p>\n<p>It is best to get a third party service to verify your PCI Compliance. We are not certified to do it and to protect yourself, you should have a third party involved. There are several available. One that several clients seem to be using is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitymetrics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Security Metrics<\/a>. There are others available and you should decided for yourself which one to use.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some more resources on what PCI Compliance is and what you need to know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcicomplianceguide.org\/pcifaqs.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PCI FAQs and Myths<\/a> (www.pcicomplianceguide.org)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Security_Standard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.websitemagazine.com\/content\/blogs\/posts\/pages\/the-abc-s-of-pci-compliance.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The ABCs of PCI Compliance<\/a> (www.websitemagazine.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.websitemagazine.com\/content\/blogs\/posts\/pages\/pci-compliance-for-every-online-merchant.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PCI Compliance for Every Online Merchant<\/a> (www.websitemagazine.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/articles\/629-What-Is-PCI-Compliance-And-Should-Merchants-Be-Concerned-About-It-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Is PCI Compliance And Should Merchants Be Concerned About It?<\/a> (www.practicalecommerce.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-27080_3-10448197-245.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PCI compliance: What it is and why it matters<\/a> (Q&amp;A) (news.cnet.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>-Tony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PCI Compliance Resources If you run an e-commerce website, your merchant account provider is going to make sure that you are PCI compliant. Part of the compliance is with your website. It&#8217;s important to know that how your website is set up is only a part of the total PCI Compliance standard &#8211; not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":190852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_tldrpress_summary":"","_tldrpress_summary_type":"","_tldrpress_summary_length":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-webstix-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}